About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc
Date Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN-13:9780810959613ISBN:0810959615
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780810959613ISBN:0810959615
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0-8109-5961-5. Hardcover. &doublequote, 2005. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new removable archival protector. Bubble-wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Oversize Book, Media Shipping Only. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket. This is a good looking book. This book has no dust jacket but is in otherwise great shape. This is a great reading copy. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 244 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Your book will be custom double-wrapped & over-taped to help assure you get it undamaged. Books sold in support of the World Outreach Project s efforts to lift up the world one person at a time. Ships Daily M-F read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780810959613ISBN:0810959615
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780810959613ISBN:0810959615
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780810959613ISBN:0810959615
Description: As New/As New. 11.5" x 11.5" 0810959615 224 pages. May still be in original shrinkwrap. Mountains on all seven continents are visible as they never would be to the naked eye-in views taken from 500 to 15 miles above the Earth that reveal the entire mountain range at once, unobstructed by clouds, haze, and the refraction of light. Remarkable images. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HARRY N ABRAMS INC
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780810959613ISBN:0810959615
Description: New. Using highly specialized, advanced digital satellite imaging-first made possible in the year 2000 with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission-this book presents an astounding collection of images of the Earth's mountain ranges carefully compiled over t... read more
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Using highly specialized, advanced digital satellite imaging-first made possible in the year 2000 with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission-this book presents an astounding collection of images of the Earth's mountain ranges carefully compiled over the course of five years by the German Remote Sensing Data Center. Now available to the public ... read more
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