Inside: Seeing Beneath the Surface

by Jan Adkins

Book Overview

Examines, in detailed illustrations and text, the insides of such common and uncommon things as city streets, ocean liners, and ball point pens. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802761933
• ISBN13: 9780802761934
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Simple isn't always shallow

I just love Jan Adkins' books. My introduction to his work came when I pulled the impressive book "Moving Heavy Things" off my brother's bookshelf and then just had to take it home and sit delightedly with its illustrations of how we humans once did by machine power what machines now do thru automation and fossil-fuels. As in that book, the line drawings on every page of "Inside: Seeing Beneath the Surface" convey Mr. Adkins' most satisfying and warm-hearted engineer's view of ordinary things. There are a couple of small moments that remind one that technology continually changes, and has changed since its 1975 publication. Some of my pleasure in it comes from Adkins adding almost poetic structure in developing the reader's appreciation of complexity. Starting from the reflecting mirrors of microscope and binocular, then arriving at the Cosmos by way of writing utensils and landscape cutaways, Mr. Adkins manages to address those being read to, as well as all readers so fortunate to discover his line on Things. May I now find and read everything Jan Adkins put on paper!