This dazzling collection of full-color photographs depicts the grandeur and diversity of Africa from an awe-inspiring vantage point: The air. More than just an original approach to its rich subject, this book is a! entirely novel and thought-provoking way of portraying Africa’s spectaculay landscapes and exotic wildlife. Seen from above, familiar images suddenly become spiritual; primeval, and mysterious ... stimulating a surprise and wondermore commonplace views no longer evoke.

This dazzling collection of full-color photographs depicts the grandeur and diversity of Africa from an awe-inspiring vantage point: The air. More than just an original approach to its rich subject, this book is a! entirely novel and thought-provoking way of portraying Africa’s spectaculay landscapes and exotic wildlife. Seen from above, familiar images suddenly become spiritual; primeval, and mysterious ... stimulating a surprise and wondermore commonplace views no longer evoke.

Crisscrossing the continent in helicopters and light planes, photographer Robert B. Haas has captured a remarkable range of truly staggering images Some are easy to identify--a trio of giraffes in silhouette against a sparkling Botswanan lake--while others are startling in their abstraction, like the dramatic sweep of a Namibian dune, its curving ridge a sharp slash: between yellow sand and orange shadow. Fish traps skein across a South African bay like the script of a tong-forgotten language, and Ethiopian sulfur depcsitsexplode against dark water like a supernova in deep space. One amazing spread is a pointillistic composition in white and pink and gray; not until we spot a single pair of outstretched wings do we recognize it as a vast flock of flamingos amassed along a Kenyan shoreline...

These are just a few of the breathtaking visions; which comprise a portrait of Africa as never seen before, a realm of light and shadow, texture and color whose variety evokes that of the continent itself. Each is distinctive and striking,Whether a solitary lioness charging a herd of several hundred buffalo, the sinuous streams winding through a lava bed, or the tin roofs of a shantytown crea:ting a mosaic of human community Interspersed among this photographic feast are brief, evocative journal entries by the photographer that enhance the images with a sense of the thoughts that crossed his mind as light traveled through his lens. Both a one-of-a-kind panorama of African life and a photographic masterpiece, Through the Eyes of the,Gods delights and dazzles the eye and the imagination alike.

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