The latest book by the award-winning photographer Bernhard Edmaier presents his stunning vistas of water in awe-inspiring views of our planet. In his seminal photography books, Bernhard Edmaier captures<br>dreamy, color-saturated, seemingly abstract images of earth<br>from above. In this new volume, Edmaier looks at water--from<br>both the air and the ground--as a source of life and one of the<br>most important landscape-shaping forces on earth. Readers<br>will be enthralled by Edmaier's stunning shots of water in all<br>its forms--rivers and streams, deltas and floodplains, surging<br>on the coasts, frozen in glaciers, as vaporous clouds, and the<br>spray over erupting volcanoes. Edmaier covers familiar and farflung<br>locations on every continent: from Alaska to the American<br>Southwest; Costa Rica to Chile and Argentina; Canada,<br>Greenland, and Russia; from Germany and Switzerland, to Italy,<br>Croatia, Iceland, and Norway; from Djibouti to Kenya, Tanzania,<br>Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo; along with<br>Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. His pictures not only<br>document the beauty of these places but they also tell a story<br>of the changes our earth and its water systems are undergoing<br>as the result of climate change--from desertification to Arctic<br>thaw and rising sea levels. Presented in an extra-large format<br>that magnifies both the intensity and the details of Edmaier's<br>work, this extraordinary and important book documents water's<br>power to create and destroy; to give life and take it away.