Embracing Earth

by Payson R. Stevens and Kevin W. Kelley

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811801357
• ISBN13: 9780811801355
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.3" x 14.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, Stunning and Thought Provoking Photos of Earth

This large, coffee table style book, brought to you by one of the authors of the awesome book, The Home Planet, contains numerous, high quality, digitally enhanced photographs of the Earth. While Earth orbiting satellites took most of these photographs, several ground-based pictures have been included to help provide a perspective. Each photographs is accompanied by a detailed description.This book is divided into three main sections. The first section, Natural Rhythms, examines how natural forces within the land, air, water, and ice and life itself (not just man) affect and change the Earth's landmasses and oceans. The next section, Human Impacts, examines how humans have altered the Earth; in many cases in just a few short years. The final section, Embracing Earth, presents some stunning photographs of our planet that the authors hope will impact the reader to treat our home with more respect.I found the chapter on the consequences of human activities our planet quite chilling. It was amazing (or sad) to see how much destruction mankind could cause in less than two decades. For example, these photographs show rapid deforestation of the rain forests in Brazil, changes in the water level of the Aral Sea, urban sprawl through out the world, massive glacier loss and forest damage due to pollution. This chapter made me want to out and plant some trees and clean up our local beach. (Note to readers: This reviewer is not some wacky environmentalist, but the facts do speak for themselves.).If you enjoy photographs of the Earth taken from space, or are interesting in seeing how mankind has altered the face of our planet or fall somewhere in between, then this book is definitely for you.