Earth from Above, Revised and Expanded Edition

Arthus-Bertrand, Yann

ISBN 10: 0810934957 / ISBN 13: 9780810934955

Published by Harry Abrams, NY, 2002

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1st printing with number 1 in printline. Fine with no wear or markings in a vg plus or near fine jacket - looks about new. This is the largest editon of this book - massive measurings: 14 3/4" T by 11 3/4 inches wide by 1 3/4 inches thick. Fascinating to say the least! And actually scarce in this large edtion and in this condition. This price includes the extra postage cost via USPS media mail.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Earth from Above, Revised and Expanded Edition
• Publisher: Harry Abrams, NY
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810934957
• ISBN 13: 9780810934955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG Plus

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Synopsis

Three years ago Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth From Above-the result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents-was published around the world to critical and popular acclaim. Now, Arthus-Bertrand's monumental achievement is available in a revised and expanded edition: Here are all the astonishing original photographs together with 17 new images and authoritative new texts by world-renowned environmentalist Lester Brown and other well-known ecologists-all at the new low price of $45.00!

Arthus-Bertrand's remarkable aerial photographs offer the most revealing and spectacular portrait of our world ever created. Produced under the sponsorship of UNESCO, the book is also a unique documentary record of the state of the world's fragile environment.

Review

Ecology, a science scarcely a century old, aims to give its practitioners an approach to understanding how whole natural systems--for example, watersheds, deserts, and estuaries--work. Few books translate this aim as well as Earth from Above, a stunning collection of photographs that affords its viewers a window into the world's workings. It is something of a commonplace, for instance, that the large-scale logging now being visited on the world's rainforests is causing untold damage to tropical ecosystems. In French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's hands, this problem is translated from arid fact to alarming image, giving immediate meaning to the statistics that underlie today's environmental headlines; his photographs of the ruins of rural Madagascar, where forests are being cleared at a rate of 1,500 square kilometers (580 square miles) annually, are a sad case in point.

Arthus-Bertrand, working with the support of UNESCO, has wandered the globe to gather this collection of more than 200 photographs, presented in a folio format. The images are uniformly striking, whether of stalagmite-like fans of algae spreading into the Mediterranean Sea, farmers working their fields in northern India, or destroyed Iraqi tanks littering the deserts of Kuwait. The accompanying text, captions, and short essays by some of France's leading scientists and social critics lend specific depth to the images, which will cheer few readers--but that will shock, and educate, and, with luck, inspire closer attention to the world around us. --Gregory McNamee