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| America from the Air: A Guide to the Landscape Along Your Route | 
 enlarge | Authors: Daniel Mathews, James S. Jackson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11515
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618706038
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304
EAN: 9780618706037
ASIN: 0618706038
Publication Date: December 14, 2007
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 window seat, please! January 2, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm so surprised by the poor reviews. First, this book is definitely not meant for the coffee table. It is a travel guide of the very finest sort. It is designed to be used in-the-field (or, rather, above it) to orient air travelers to the views outside their window and it does so with aplomb. But it does so much more than that. The authors skilfully synthesize a history of earth's natural features with human history and demographic data. In addition to locating rivers and valleys and mountains and seas, it points out the contrast in urbanization and crop colors on the US/Mexico border, identifies Fermilab, windfarms, and the Atlantic City boardwalk. It also interprets the impact of forest fires and forest pests, and describes things like center pivot irrigation. It is well researched, well referenced, and well written and does an excellent job illustrating the remarkable relationship between humans and geography. I can't wait for my next flight.
 Disappointed December 24, 2007
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
The review I read on this book was that it was a Coffee Table book. I define a Coffee Table book as an oversize book with lots of excellent pictures and a little bit of writing. This book fails on all 3. It is half the size (no problem). The pictures are small and lack sharpness, and there are way more pages filled with writinig than pictures. It may be an interesting read, but that's not what I purchased it for.
There is a CD that comes woth it. I have not seen it, but it may be it's redeming grace.
Not so great December 19, 2007
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was disappointed by this book. I doubt that it will be very helpful. I don't think that the pictures will help you identify what is on the ground. I always sit in the window seat and really enjoy looking at the Earth below.
I really like the on-screen tracking of your plane on a map that some airlines provide. Although the one American Airlines uses for trans-Atlantic flights could use some improvement, it is much more useful and fun than this book. Maybe not a fair comparison.
I was expecting something much better. I returned the book even though the return mail cost greatly reduces the small refund.
What's Out the Window is Better Than the Movie December 17, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
America from the Air: A Guide to the Landscape Along Your Route
This book is an entirely new approach to looking at the US from above. More than just pictures, the book provides a route-by-route description of the sights you'll see along the route, together with annotated photographs to show you where things are and what you're seeing. Detailed texts tell you what to look for as you pass over different parts of your route. The back of the book has indexes that plot out common airline routes and cross-references to points along those routes. Many of the photographs are straight-down shots taken by NASA from space, but many others are plane-level views that depict the scenes the way you are likely to encounter them.
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