OVER EUROPE: Spectacular Aerial Photographs of the New Europe [Hardcover]

Jan Morris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1998

This a very big book with breathtaking glossy pictures. Perfect for the coffee table.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Weldon Owen (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188745120X
• ISBN-13: 978-1887451208
• Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 10.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,138,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just another coffee table book!, April 4, 2000

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Daniel Kent (Vermont, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OVER EUROPE: Spectacular Aerial Photographs of the New Europe (Hardcover)

If you regard this book as just another coffee table book you aren't even half right. This is one of the best photo books I have ever seen. The pictures are outstanding. Nearly every photo takes you to the alter of the church, the edge of the cliff, or the gate to the castle. Not only is it a photo book, but a great travel book. These aren't just descriptions of what to see, but beautiful pictures showing you what you will want to see when you get there. You won't even need to take a camera or change for postcards-- the best pictures are right here. Get this book before you plan your vacation to Europe.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inexpensive Grandeur and Glory, July 20, 2000

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David Kleist - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OVER EUROPE: Spectacular Aerial Photographs of the New Europe (Hardcover)

I stumbled upon this title in a competitor's bookstore and was astonished that I hadn't read a review anywhere. With a 1998 imprint and Jan Morris as the author of the text, it doesn't seem like it should be an obscure tome, yet even here on Amazon.com, only one other person has reviewed it!

The photos are designed to provoke a sense of wonder and awe in the reader/viewer, and they succeed aesthetically, emotionally, and psychologically. From the rock of Gilbralter to a dense set of "potato row" houses in Copenhagen; from snowfields near the Arctic circle to Turkey--it's all here, images snapped from blimps, airplanes, helicopters, almost any method by which one might be "over" Europe.

One will not be able to glimpse most of these sites from comparable vantage points on a typical trek across the continent unless one plans to do so in a biplane. The images here are unusual in their breadth and majesty. ... The text is literate and fun. Buy it and marvel.

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, June 3, 2011

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Walter L. Bramhall "technodeity" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OVER EUROPE: Spectacular Aerial Photographs of the New Europe (Hardcover)

Coffee Table sized pictures taken from (what appears to be) a Helicopter.

Awesome! I can't put it down