[Used Book] Blue Planet: A Portrait of the Earth - Lydia Dotto [Condition: A]

Author: Lydia Dotto

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Publisher: Smithsonian Institution and Lockheed Corporation

Publication year: 1991

ISBN: 9780810924727

Upload date：260814

Description:

This volume features dizzying views of earth as seen by astronauts on five space shuttle missions. While outer space affords a striking view of our planet's brilliant blue surface, it also provides an alarming glimpse of such problems as ozone depletion, atmospheric pollution, deforestation, and rivers muddied by dislodged topsoil. Dotto covers numerous environmental threats, maintaining that earth, our sole life-support system, is not nearly as limitless in resources as it seems. The spectacular images include the Himalaya Mountains, an active volcano in Japan, a typhoon off the coast of Southeast Asia, Hubbard Glacier reaching into the Gulf of Alaska, the Red Sea and Nile River against ocher-hued desert. Combined with Dotto's grim reminders about global warming, overpopulation and wastefulness, the shuttle photographs arouse awe and a protective instinct. ISBN 0-8109-2472-2: $19.95 (For use only in the library).