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Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents (Hardcover)

by Stefan Dech (Author), Rudiger Glasser (Author), Reinhold Messner (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (7 Oct 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0810959615
ISBN-13: 978-0810959613
Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 29.4 x 2.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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The mountains have always been very special regions - the scenes of myths and the seats of the gods, spaces to retreat to and strategic bulwarks, but also places of natural and cultural diversity and multivarious living conditions over small areas. This book takes a completely new and unique look at the world's mountains. It brings together pictures that have been produced by computer on the basis of a new type of unusually precise satellite measurements and provides views never seen before. It was not until the year 2000 that the earth's surface was first surveyed systematically and completely by satellite radar on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. This made it possible to show every area with hitherto unknown precision and to produce views in perspective, which in reality are not possible for practical reasons n as if one were flying at a great height and seeing an infinite distance unhampered by clouds, haze and the refraction of light. This book is also a work of nonfiction about all the important aspects of the mountains - their genesis by volcanic activity and the collisions of continental tectonic plates; their role in the emergence of ecological diversity; their function for the weather and climate, their susceptibility to natural catastrophes, their specific sociological features.

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Professor Stephan Dech holds a teaching chair for remote exploration at the University of Wurtzburg. Rudiger Glasser is a climate researcher and holds the teaching chair for physical geography at the University of Freiburg. World-renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner shares his unique perspective and experience along with other mountaineers like Stephen Venables, Christopher Profit, and Alexander Huber.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 8 Feb 2006

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If you love mountain photograph, you will find this book disappointing. The beautiful picture at the book cover is misleading: the remaining ones are satellite photos, taken from so large an altitude that mountains look flat and featureless, giving no sense of the vertical elevation. Valleys and towns are far more clear than slopes and summits, which are mostly unrecognisable and immersed in a rounded anonimity. The closer views of the mountains occurring through the book are mostly computerized images, undoubtely useful for the geographer but failing miserably to convey the beauty of the landscape; the few real photos are manipulated to heighten the altitude, add constrast and false colour, and do some other wizardry so that we do not know if we are looking to a real mountain or a Pixar movie. Following an irritating tradition, the picture captions are grouped at the end of the book, forcing you to make a balancing act by looking at two pages at a time. Altitudes are set exclusively in feet, thus ensuring the incomprehension of most of mankind. In short, you will like this book if you are a geographer, but do not expect to find anything to enhance your love of the mountains.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A different perspective on mountain ranges, 31 Jan 2007

By	D. Tiso "mountain man" (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The title of the book is mountains from space & accordingly it gives a completely different perspective to any other mountain photography book I own. The pictures are sometimes digitally enhanced/altered but this is made clear in the text, there is a brief descriptive caption with each photograph & a full caption at the back of the book, the full caption occupies a third of a page so it would obviously be impractical to have it alongside the photograph.If you are thinking about purchasing this book there are some excellent reviews on amazon.com.It is also worth mentioning that the quality reproduction is superb & the price is very reasonable.

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