Earth from the Air, 365 Days

The world is a truly amazing place and this book makes you want to get out there and see it.

Photographs are excellent and capture the moment exactly.

As another review has put, it is the best coffee table book you will find.

Go out and buy it, you will not regret it.


Itys above the rest   August 16, 2004
 54 out of 54 found this review helpful

This book is fabulous. I have it lying around in the living room and just look at a few of the pictures at a time - this way it takes a while to read and every picture can be savoured. There is a picture for every day of the year and a couple of paragraphs about each picture that gives some background to the picture and ties it into the theme of the book - Ecology. The beginning of each month has a short essay by a scientist or similar subject matter expert about a particular ecological subject. I personally have not been reading them very closely!

The pictures are obviously why people buy this book and they certainly impress - they range from the famous (Venice) to eye-opening (The Hiroshima memorial building) to the whimsical (tyre tracks on an airport runway)! Every picture is wonderful and even if one does not appeal there are 365 other pictures to drink in. A nice feature is that the Lat/Long of each picture is shown so the very adventurous can go and see the locations for themselves!

All in all, a brilliant book to leave lying around and to sample whenever you have a spare five minutes. Drink in the wonderful pictures and then fantasise about visiting the locations in person. Brilliant.


366 Days Of the World, in a book 366 million times smaller!   July 26, 2004
 16 out of 16 found this review helpful

What a great book. Picked it up whilst in Sussex Stationers one day and could not put it down, was forced by myself to buy it there and then. Anybody that is remotely interested in the natural world outside of their own, i am sure will feel the same way i do about this remarkable collection of photographs from around our world. From the slums of Rio to the idillic cottage in central England, this book shows and tells a great story, one of supreme diversity and extremes of nature.


Yeah, whatever....   July 26, 2004
 3 out of 6 found this review helpful

Really nice book, if a tad expensive. Basically its 365 aerial photo's. Once you've read it all you can cut out and frame the photo's which is what I did!!!!


The Medium is the Message   May 12, 2004
 31 out of 31 found this review helpful

Almost pointless to review this book of lavish photographs on a site where you can't see the images, but take this one on trust: this is the most beautiful book in the world, ever. The photographs, one for each day of the (leap) year, are stunning aerial shots of the most striking features of every country in the world. It outscores its sister volume, The Universe: 365 Days, in sheer variety, believe it or not. Leave it open on your table, turn a page every day and you have a year's worth of wonder and fascination. Yesterday I had ice floes in northern Canada, near the Arctic Circle - just to the corner of the page, in the middle of one of the great white slabs, is a tiny speck than turns out to be a person. Today it's a village of subsistence living in the Sahara desert, near Timbuktu, where the only thing that makes the crops grow is the manure from the animals they feed with the crops...

Best of all, it's not just showy natural phenomena that catch the cameraman's eye - a lattice of working-class housing in Belfast or the scarred and crazed surface of a highway in Kentucky carry just as much interest. The only low point is the occasionally sanctimonious tone of the accompanying text, which invariably switches halfway through each description from telling you what you're seeing to a jeremiad against human beings and how we're wrecking everything. I could have done with more detailed explanations of the images. But you don't have to read the words: just look.