Product Details
Format: Hardback Book
Pages: 435
Language: English
Size: 12" x 14.5"
Author: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Comments: The first edition of Earth From Above, the result of the aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's fifteen-year airborne odyssey across six continents, was published in 1999 around the world to critical and popular acclaim.
The photographer has now flown over 100 countries and presents this third edition of Earth From Above. It features new photographs, all-new essays, and updated information by a range of experts, among them Laster Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute and founder of the Worldwatch Institute. It is intended to heighten the public's awareness to today's urgent ecological issues. Now more than ever, this book stands as an aid to understanding and a call to action.
About the Authors: First discovered the beauty of the world seen from above in a hot-air balloon in Kenya, where he wrote about lions with his wife, Anne. In 1991 he founded the Altitude Agency, a unique bank of aerial images that brings together photographs from all corners of the world. A specialist in aerial photography renowned throughout th world, he has published approximately 70 books.
Publication Details
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Date of Publication: 2005
Published in Country: France
Product Number: ISBN # 978081095477
