Second Earth

by Patrick Woodroffe

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850280436
• ISBN13: 9781850280439
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Second Earth - A Unique Picture Book

Woodroffe's Second Earth is a very different retelling of Genesis, a poetic story of the rise and fall and rebirth of the human race. The prose has a mystical and philosophical flavor appropriate to the subject, but with poetically beautiful language. Every page has at least one painting, often two or three, and the paintings range from peacefully pretty landscapes thronged with alien animals to Boschian nightmares or war and devastation. Everything in the book is very beautiful, and everything in the book is very strange. The book has strongly religious overtones but bears no resemblance to any real religion. If that description appeals to you, then the Second Earth is the best rendition of it you're likely to find. If not, you'll find the book weird, creepy, and maybe offensive, but at least it will still be pretty. Also, the book is very, very out of print and getting harder and harder to obtain.

The Second Earth

Great sale experience. Item was packed lovingly and arrived to me safely. Awesome book with incredible pictures. This is a treasure.

Sorry - But a 4 STAR MINUS

The Album art is better The Book Designers, Editors should be sent to Guantanamo for a scolding The Format should have matched the LP 12"x12" For those who never saw the Album "You have been shortchanged" Images are clipped, reduced and cropped. The binding hides images The Printer should also be on the list of convicts - the colors are washed by comparison to the original. The larger format I suggest would have cost more for the cover and binding but would have used less paper and few pages. The design time would have been less. The Album would have been copied - with the new pages inserted or appended. The additional material is negligible if viewed apart from the original. By the way - I did compare the 2 after viewing the book for a week

Each picture is worth the purchase price.

A fantastic collection of the artists work compiled into a retelling of the pentateuch (the first five books of The Bible). Lushly illistrated in Woodroffe's unique style. Don't let the biblical angle throw you; fundamentalists may not enjoy this (anymore than they might enjoy, say, Last Temptation (Scorsese)).