The highlights of the epic journey around the world of the Breitling DC-3. Exactly seventy-seven years to the day since its first flight, the Breitling DC-3 left for a unique journey right around the planet. Between March and September 2017 the DC-3 HB-IRJ undertook a great world tour in stages punctuated with various events and participations in airshows; a new accomplishment for this legendary airplane that has marked the history of aviation forever. One of the main goals of the Breitling DC-...
The Great Wall (The genius of China) (Odyssey Guides)
by William Lindesay
From a beginning in a remote desert, the Great Wall stretches across North China to the Yellow Sea. It is the only man-made object visible fromthe moon. This book seeks to tell the story of its construction, its purpose and effectiveness.'
Intelligence Revolution 1960: Retrieving the Corona Imagery That Helped Win the Cold War
by Ingard Clausen and Professor Edward A Miller
Christoph Gielen's aerial views offer a look at America's most aberrant and unusual sprawl forms in ways we usually don't get to see them: from far above the ground - a vantage point that reveals both the intricate geometry as well as the idiosyncratic allure of these developments. Here, encountering sprawl becomes an aesthetic experience that at the same time leaves us with a sense of foreboding, of seeing the "writing on the wall". At once fascinating and profoundly unsettling, these photograp...
Aerial photographer George Steinmetz, shooting from a motorized paraglider, has created an unparalleled portrait of Rub' al-Khali, or "the Empty Quarter," the largest and most likely the hottest sand desert in the world. Although only a fraction of the size of its giant neighbor, the Sahara, the Empty Quarter's punishing terrain has rarely been captured on film, and never from such a striking perspective.Old maps, satellite images, and a dose of Arabian hospitality enabled Steinmetz to travel wh...
'In this book, you will travel in both space and time, starting in the years around the First World War and moving all the way up to the present day. As you go, you will see just what our pioneering aviators saw as they stared out from their cockpits. And, more than that, you will explore what they were trying to find. Because, from above, Scotland can be many different things, depending on what you choose to look at - and who is doing the looking.' Accompanying the BBC documentary series Scotl...
In 1999 the first edition of "The Earth from the Air" - the result of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's five-year airborne odyssey over six continents - was published. Now this work has been revised and expanded for the 21st century, with additional photographs, all-new essays and updated information. How can we ensure sustainable development and preserve the Earth for future generations? The crisis facing the global population propelled Arthus-Bertrand on his mission to create a portrait of the world - bo...
Swissair: Aerial Photography (VSS - Pictorial Worlds. Photographs from)
by Ruedi Weidmann
Aerial photography had a special place in the business of the legendary former Swiss airline Swissair. Walter Mittelholzer (1894- 1937), aviation pioneer and one of Swissair's founders, trained as a photographer before turning to aviation. The airline had a specialised subsidiary, Swissair Photo AG, producing well over 100,000 pictures between 1931-2001, when Swissair ceased operations, and still exists as an independent enterprise, BSF Swissphoto. The photographs show landscapes, towns and vill...
Take an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend with photographer Paul Chaplo as he captures the shapes, textures, and colors of the craggy, weathered landforms people usually see only from the ground-and some places no photographer has gone before. Flying from Marfa, and hanging precariously from the open door of an aircraft, Chaplo shares a hawk's eye view of a fiercely beautiful region, revealing the stark and magnificent landscapes carved by the force of eons of wind and water on the arid,...
Amarillo Flights (American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University)
by Paul V. Chaplo
Visitors to Texas and New Mexico have marvelled for centuries at the immensity of the Llano Estacado and the surprising contrast as, at the edges of the great mesa, the flat ground gives way suddenly to such spectacular formations as the Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons. In the introduction to Amarillo Flights, artist and naturalist Walt Davis chronicle the history of this region - what Paul Chaplo calls the 'Llano Country' - and of those artists, mapmakers, and travelers who have tried in various...
Natural disasters, climate change, the exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our planet at a relentless pace. Now, using over 200 stunning images from the air, land and space, Fragile Earth brings together the most dramatic natural and man-made events. Striking views of our changing planet show the extraordinary effects of man and nature. Each set of carefully selected 'before and after' pictures is combined with detailed explanations allowing you to...