Beautiful new local books

Just released: two new books celebrating all that our area has to offer.

Living Sanibel ($26.95), by Charlie Sobczak, is a colorful field guide to the Sanibel-Captiva environment, including a complete rundown on the island flora and fauna, where and how to see them, as well as maps, bike paths, and many island attractions. Beautiful photos and lively writing make this book a pleasure.

Visions of Beauty: Fort Myers, Sanibel, and Beyond ($65.00), by Alan Maltz, is an elegant coffee table book that portrays Southwest Florida in .its best light. Maltz is unmatched in his talent for capturing the natural beauty of the area. He has been designated the Official Fine Art Photographer of Florida and the Official Wildlife Photographer of Florida. This is his fourth coffee-table book And the photos—including many from Sanibel and Captiva—are breathtaking. Visions of Beauty is also available in a cloth-boxed edition for $85.

Both of these books are welcome additions to the shelves at MacIntosh Books & Paper.

You can order these books by emailing MacIntoshBooks@gmail.com. We will happily ship them to you.