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Overview: A New Perspective of Earth Hardcover – October 25, 2016

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A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram account.

Inspired by the "Overview Effect"--a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole--the breathtaking, high definition satellite photographs in OVERVIEW offer a new way to look at the landscape that we have shaped. More than 200 images of industry, agriculture, architecture, and nature highlight incredible patterns while also revealing a deeper story about human impact. This extraordinary photographic journey around our planet captures the sense of wonder gained from a new, aerial vantage point and creates a perspective of Earth as it has never been seen before.

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October 25, 2016
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10.7 x 1.2 x 11.3 inches
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039957865X
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978-0399578656
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"A compendium of spectacular satellite imagery...Overview documents the impact of human existence."
–Wall Street Journal

"Absolutely gorgeous, yet utterly gut-wrenching"
–Wired

"Stunning, surprising and intriguing photographs of Earth from the skies."
–The Guardian

"Photos of earth from above will change your outlook of the planet"
–Fast Company

"Incredible images that show Earth’s surface as you’ve never seen it before"
–BBC

"Grant’s book...uses satellite photography to reveal both environmental wonders and suburban sprawl from a new perspective."
–Los Angeles Times

"From far away, it’s possible to get a glimpse of what connects us, and why it’s worth protecting."
–Boston Globe

"Hypnotic images from across the globe"
–Daily Mail

"Totally breathtaking"
–Thrillist

"A unique view of the globe we all call home."
–Smithsonian

"The awesomeness of earth from above"
–The Atlantic

"Stunning"
–Huffington Post

"A tour de force of research and image presentation"
–American Photo

About the Author

Overview takes its inspiration from Daily Overview—an Instagram project established by author BENJAMIN GRANT. Since he began the project in December 2013, his daily posts have both delighted and challenged his audience from all corners of the globe. For Overview, Grant has curated and created more than 200 original images by stitching together numerous high‑resolution satellite photographs. With each Overview, Grant aims to not only inspire a fresh perspective of our planet but also encourage a new understanding of what human impact looks like. He lives and rides his bike in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amphoto Books; NO-VALUE edition (October 25, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 039957865X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399578656
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.7 x 1.2 x 11.3 inches

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Benjamin Grant is the founder of Overview. His books take their original inspiration from Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) — an Instagram account he launched in December 2013. With each post and story, he aims to not only inspire a fresh perspective of our planet but also how human activity changes the Earth. Grant graduated from Yale University where he studied world history, art history, and rowed on the heavyweight crew team. He lives and rides his bike in San Francisco.

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Jack Albertelli

My Wife Loves It

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2022

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My wife loves coffee table books and this is one of her favorites. It is just really interesting to see the world from a top down view.

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OrangeCrushTop Contributor: Photography

Arguably the Single Most Beautiful Book on Space to Date!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 14, 2017

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There are actually a lot of high quality coffee table style books now that focus on space related imagery or satellite imagery and that is mainly due to the fact that there are now a LOT of different satellites in orbit taking pictures at all different frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum. There are so many now, Its actually hard keeping up with all of them. On top of that, ground based telescopes now have this absolutely brilliant technique called adaptive optics, which is basically where a laser is shot into the atmosphere to measure the amount of atmospheric distortion that is taking place due to the Earth's atmosphere. The end result of this amazing technology is they are basically able to cancel out the atmospheric distortion that is taking place due to the Earth's atmosphere and that basically makes Earth based telescopes SIGNIFICANTLY more powerful than they used to be. In fact, some ground based telescopes are now sharper than many of the telescopes orbiting the planet in space. The bottom line is that there are literally TONS of new pictures being taken in space all the time and that has caused a major increase in the number of books released that focus on space related imagery.

I am a space junkie and just can't get enough space content, wether it be pictures, documentaries, books, etc. I even take the really high quality image files that NASA makes available to people and I have really beautiful prints made from sites like Zazzle and Society 6. Thankfully all of NASA's pictures are free domain, which means your allowed to have prints made from them. I am also an amateur backyard astronomer and love taking pictures of space. I also purchased a high end solar telescope from Lunt and taking pictures of the sun has become one of my single favorite photographic subjects. I'm a professional photographer and am just a HUGE fan of art in general so anytime I see a new astronomy related art book, I don't hesitate to press the order button. I have an entire bookshelf now that is pretty much dedicated to space related books, many of which are photography related books and there are a LOT of amazing astronomy related photography books on the market. In fact, I really can't think of one that I actually disliked. Some are certainly better than others, but I have never purchased one that I regretted purchasing.

Anyways, I recently went to Barnes and Noble with my wife as she always buys a slew of calendars that she gives as presents during Christmas. I wound up wandering into the art/photography section and someone had left this book on one of the chairs that was in that department. I sat down and within just 10-15 pages I was already 100% sold on buying it. IMO, this is one of the most beautiful astronomy related photography books I have seen to date and that is just a HUGE compliment given how many amazing astronomy related photography books I have purchased over the years. The photographer stitches many of these images together from lots of individual pictures. It must take a lot of work, but the results are spectacular in most cases. If your a space junkie like myself or you just enjoy looking at beautiful pictures of the Cosmos, this should be the very next book on your to buy list. Trust me, this is without question one of the most unique and one of the most beautiful astronomy related art books produced to date. And the reasonable MSRP price just makes it that much more of a no brainer. All in all, this is just a brilliant book with absolutely spectacular images in it. A must buy for all space junkies and connoisseurs.

5 Stars!!

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Chris Reich

I was not disappointed! I've been enjoying his Instagram account ever since

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2016

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I just happened upon Benjamin's Instagram account about a year ago. I don't remember what the picture was that initially caught my attention, but after enjoying the single image I clicked on his account to see what else he had for me. I was not disappointed! I've been enjoying his Instagram account ever since.

When my book finally arrived, I took it out of the box and immediately sat in my recliner for about 30 minutes (all that my 6-year-old would allow me) enjoying it. I happen to be an avid reader, but if you are NOT a reader, you will find yourself reading this anyway! There's simply no chance that you'll look at the pictures and carelessly flip the page without the least bit of curiosity about the "what" or "where" of the image before you. I didn't get far in that 30 minutes. The images have to be savored, the captions simply must be read, and you have no choice but to explain the images to any nosey toddlers in the vicinity while insisting that you can flip your own pages, thank you very much!

And let's face it - these images are so much better in a large book than a little Samsung. I don't own a single photography book other than this one. In our day and age, I guess it takes a lot to impress me or to hold my interest. We have so much available to us that true intrigue can be very elusive. Well, this book will definitely intrigue!

I've also never bothered to leave a review on Amazon before. Just too lazy to bother. But I really felt I should. This book is just different. There's not much else like it. Of course I'm referring to the content. However, the presentation and organization are stellar. Very nicely done!

6 people found this helpful

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Overview Will Change What You Think of the Earth...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2016

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This is a gorgeous, information-packed book, full of high resolution satellite images that would make astounding wall art. But this is not your average coffee-table book...it's an incredible and unique view of the world. Despite my decades of work in the environmental sciences, this book provided new insights, showing man's ecological, architectural, and terra-forming impacts -- for better and worse -- in ways that I had never seen before. It drove home to me what amazing things humans are capable of, how resilient and resourceful we are, and also how destructive we can be, in ways that even the best environmental writing can't always communicate. The balance between text and photos is perfect: enough to clearly explain each photo, but not so much as to get in the way of the amazing images. The text does not impose a particular point of view on the reader, but you will certainly have opinions as you fly through it. The geographic coordinates for each photo are a wonderful inclusion, too: you can easily use Google Earth to provide even greater context for the photos that intrigue you the most. For those who think or worry or are hopeful about the future of humanity on Planet Earth, this book has tremendous immediacy.

47 people found this helpful

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Dylan Ozmore

This is the book that saved Earth from being destroyed in 2017

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2018

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There is a parallel universe to ours in which this book was NEVER published. In that universe, the Earth is destroyed in 2017. Only a small group of human beings manage to escape the destruction in a spaceship. On board the ship, the human cyborg clones of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steve Jobs have a son named Benjamin Grant. Benjamin grows up knowing nothing about Earth other than the few remaining historical photographs taken from space just before its destruction. His curiosity drives him to gather the photographs and assemble them into a masterfully created book. All the future human cyborgs gather around and have the collective insight that if human beings in the past had this book it would have completely shifted their relationship to Earth and saved the existence of the planet. So they used their extremely advanced technology to send the book back across universes and to the year 2016 to save planet Earth. THIS IS THAT BOOK!

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Lennart Hermans

Love the book, didn't arrive in new condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 8, 2019

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First of all: I love the book. Been following Benjamin Grant for a while, and was really looking forward receiving the book. It did not disappoint.

However, when the book arrived, the cover was dirty, and definitely felt like it was used before. There were greasy fingers all over it, and the cover was placed up-side-down over the book. Very disappointed to receive what appears to be a second hand version when advertised as new.

4 people found this helpful

ecambl

A must read, a MUST VIEW!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 8, 2017

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This book should be in every school. It has altered my whole thinking about the world and the importance of what we need to do to save it. The pictures are stunningly beautiful, breathtaking even and then you discover in simply put wording what you are actually admiring. It is one of the best ways we could teach the importance of conservation to the very young. I've sent a copy to my grandchildren because I think it's truly marvellous. I'm seventy years old.

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Cole

Fantastic visuals - but cover is used and dirty :(

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 13, 2020

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Visuals inside are fantastic, but the book cover is shockingly used and dirty, with large oily finger marks, folds and seemingly even mould across it. Without the cover sleeve, it is just a plain blue cover with no coffee table appeal...

This is a so disappointing for a book whose main appeal is in its visuals, and which must have clearly taken a lot of work to put together. Looking at other reviews this seems to be a common problem. Will try to get a replacement sleeve, fingers crossed.

Victoria

arrived messed up

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 31, 2021

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The product itself was really dirty, had a smear of what looks like glue across the front. The paper cover was put on badly and as a result the whole top is crumpled. Should have listened to other reviews. The actual delivery box was not damaged, so this is a fault of the product itself.

Duncan_l

Required reading for anyone who calls this planet 'home'!! Breathtaking and beautiful and shocking at the same time!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 8, 2016

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This is a stunning book. Should be #1 on your Christmas list if it isn't already! The images of our planet are breathtaking and definitely provide a unique perspective that is so often lost in our day to day life. You really have to see these images to believe them. Furthermore this book brings to life these images with insightful descriptions and commentary, and is organized in a way that really makes you think about the impact that we as humans are having on our planet. Truly changes your entire perspective. Benjamin Grant has really brought together something special here and I will certainly be getting a copy of this book for everyone I know!!

3 people found this helpful

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