{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-earth-from-orbit-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Earth from Orbit (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Earth from Orbit is a large-format coffee table book about our planet seen from orbit, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. Some look along the curved edge of the Earth, others down on its land, water, ice and cloud, by day and by night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens on the band of blue air along the Earth's curve: sunlit cloud tops casting long shadows, silvery-blue clouds glowing just above the horizon at twilight, the sun on the horizon with the air banded orange and blue, and a thin crescent moon hanging in the black of space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRivers and deltas: a braided river across grey gravel, two rivers, one green and one brown, running side by side unmixed, a great delta branching out into a turquoise sea, and a brown river looping among crescent oxbow lakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIce and snow: a valley glacier striped with dark rock debris, a flat-topped iceberg adrift in a dark sea, bright blue meltwater lakes on an ice sheet, and the long white edge of an ice shelf. Mountains and volcanoes: a snow-capped volcanic cone, a round deep-blue lake in a volcano's crater, rock folded into tight loops, and a grey column of ash bending away over the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoasts, reefs and islands: a pale line of reef and surf between a turquoise lagoon and the deep blue ocean, long narrow fjords between snowy mountains, and a hooked spit of pale sand. Lakes of many colours: salt ponds in pink, red and green, a rose-red salt lake ringed with white, and a milky turquoise lake below a glacier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiving colour: green plankton drawn into long spiralling ribbons, a lake streaked bright green, and wooded hills patched with red and gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFields: round green fields in neat rows, fine green terraces ringing rounded hills, and a patchwork of gold, green and brown. Toward the end, the night side: a dark coastline traced by glowing towns, a thin band of green airglow along the Earth's dark edge, green curtains of aurora, a storm lit from within by lightning, and a city's golden web of streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about the planet rather than about the pictures: why a delta is named after the Greek letter delta; why clear water over pale sand looks turquoise and deep water dark blue; how little of the world's desert is covered by sand; and how many of the world's people live near the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68148178026800,"sku":"9671456003962","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456003962.jpg?v=1792626813","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-earth-from-orbit-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}