Collection: Reference

Arranged in chapters that reflect different aspects of life, the photographs highlight the world's most beautiful places. Journey to the planet's most magnificent places with this portrait of our world. See it you've never seen it before!

La Perouse had been overdue from the Pacific since 1788, and the party sent out by the revolutionary government in 1791 to find him and to continue his work was one of the largest scientific expeditions ever mounted in France.

Over 150 illustrations, many of which are taken from the extensive galleries and archives of Lord's itself, this follows the history of the ground from its foundation by Thomas Lord in 1787, through the twentieth century and right up to the present day.