I love books with sketchy illustrations, such as the travel sketchbooks I discovered a few years ago (Review: City Sketchbooks). I've recently seen Julia Rothman's illustrated farm book, called Farm Anatomy, on the Internet.
The book consists of several drawings and sketches that Julia spent a year putting together. The book covers items, such as cuts of meat to identification of vegetables to types of machinery. Julia was inspired to work on the idea for the book because her husband grew up on a working farm (1). The illustrations and text work well together and provide an artistic view of farm life, and it works well as a coffee-table-book.
A picture is a thousand words, and I love how hand-written text and images come together to complete this book.
1) Rothman, Julia. Introducing Farm Anatomy. http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/design/introducing-farm-anatomy [August 31, 2011].
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