Conference 7.286::space

474.0. "THE_HOME_PLANET" by PARITY::BIRO () Fri Oct 07 1988 11:56

    I just receive an add for a new book
    
    THE_HOME_PLANET
    Images and Reflection of Earth form Space Explorers
    For the Association of Space Explorers
    
    Color Photohgraphs printed under the cooperative publishing ventured
    based on American and Soviet expeditions into space. I read a 
    TASS artical saying that each picutre would be narrative in the
    native tought of the person who experience it with a translation
    also give.  I have not seen the book to see if they have keeped
    the orignal in the navtive tounge.  
    
    The Add I receive came form the Science Fiction Book Club and
    it went on to say, extraordinary volume unviels the fragile beauty
    of our planet as witnessed by th elite groupe of 20th century
    pioneers.
    
    "Anyone who has seen the Earth from space knows that it is an
    incomparable sight. It's not just that the planet is piercingly
    beautiful when view at a distance; something about the unexpectedness
    of the sight, its incompatibility with anything we have ever
    experienced on Earth, or know, or paracticed elicits a deep emotional
    response...Only from space can you see that our planet should not be called
    Earth, but rather Water, with spec-like islands of dryness on which
    people, animals, and birds surprisingly find a place to live"
    Oleg Makarov USSR
    
    "The first day or so we all pointed to our contries.  The  third
    or forth day we were pointing to our countinents.  By the fifth day
    we were aware of only one Earth."
    Sultan Bin Salman Al-Saud Saudia Arabia
    
    "As I looked down, I saw a large river, meandering slowly along
    for miles, passing form one country to another  without stoppong.
    I also saw huge forest, extending across several borders. And I
    watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate
    continents. Two words leaped to mnd as I looked down on all this:
    commonality and interdependence. We are one world."
    John-David Bartoe U.S.A.
    
    150 magnificent color photographs oversized 9 3/4 x 14 inches
    publisher's price $39.95   Book Club price $24.95
    
    I have nothing to do with the book or the Club nor have    
    I yet to get my copy but it is in the mail, more when
    it arrives.                                                
    I would expect this book would be advable in most book stores
    
    
    
    john
    

    I've recently bought a copy of THE HOME PLANET. Although it cost
    20 pounds it was well worth it.
    
    All the plates are in colour and all the text has been written by
    astronauts and cosmonauts (as well as the text being written in
    both English and in the native tongue of the astronaut/cosmonaut).
    
    The book itself is quite large, and so many of the plates thaty
    cover a whole page of a two page spread really come out well.
    
    Although 20 pounds is a fair amount for a book that is mostly photos
    I really enjoyed it (and I used to work with large quantities of
    satellite imagery in a previous job, so I am by no means new to
    space photography!)
    
    Superb - I highly recommend it
    
    Martin Callen