Iceland: Aerials

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Summary: Stunning and Gorgeous
Review: I was trying to get some reference for the Icelandic landscape for a film on which I was working. No other land on Earth could contain the richness of Iceland. You really feel that God reached down and painted this island. This is definitely a coffee-table or reference book. It's hardcover and it's binding holds up well under stressful conditions. There is really little text, which was fine because the pictures say it all. Lily Winter's review is dead on. The pictures really look like abstract paintings. You see everything from the flowing coastlines to the snow-capped mountain peaks...not to mention the formations that thousands of years of lava flows and glaciers have created. I highly, highly recommend it!

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Summary: Breathtaking views of an unworldly landscape
Review: This large, coffee-table book shows the strange, startling landscape of Iceland from above. Each photograph is accompanied by a one or two line description, and there is also an introduction. A map shows the location of each natural wonder. The photographs are beautiful. They do not include the sights usually seen in tour books, such as waterfalls and cliffs, but concentrate on various interior mountains, river valleys, and icefields. This is the Iceland that you may never otherwise get to see. Many of the landscapes are so strange, that they could be mistaken for abstract pieces of art. My only negative criticism of the book is that, in many photos, a bird or other item should have been included as a guide to indicate scale.