above displayed are sample pages of Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air, a fabulous book by my fellow Other magazine staffer, Gregory Dicum. The book is so cool I got it for my Dad for Christmas without once looking at the name of the author, and didn't realize who had written it until I was directed to his website by a link he posted on the othermag blog.
The book is a guide to reading the landscape of the United States from the window of an airplane. This includes maps, lots of aerial photography, and information about geology, geography, history (especially of land use), as well as explanations of how to recognize what you're looking at. It's heavily designed (without corners!) and easy on the eyes. It almost gives me a reason to sit in the window seat, despite my mild claustrophobia. (I said, "almost" ... that's why I gave it to my Dad.)
Window Seat was published in 2004 and a European Window Seat is due out this year.
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