Earth From Above
Photography by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Introduction by Lester Brown
A big subject demands a big book, and few volumes have quite the physical or aesthetic heft of Earth From Above, the product of a five-year odyssey by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Traveling in hydro-planes and helicopters, Arthus-Bertrand snapped hundreds of dazzling god's-eye perspectives on everything from tropical rain forests to deserts to a fish market in Senegal. Readers who missed out when the book was first published in 1999 can now secure a revised edition (Abrams, $49.95), with 16 new images and an introduction by Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute.
—Louis Bayard
