What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.
The book was technical and beautiful.
The book was all dry, technical writing.
the street is void of people
the woman is laying down
The kids are inside playing a game.
The two children run happily down the lane.
The door was opened when she was writing the address on the envelope.
The girl is outside.