Nov 197S RAIN fage 27 FROM ABOVE ATS II Pictures of the Earth and Indian Ocean Cloud Patterns, from: Natio_nal Center for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 1470 Boulder, CO 80832 The first home movies of our planet and the rhythms of weather change through time lapse photography. Other. films available. The World From Above, Hanns Reich, Hill & Wang, New York, $6.00. Contains the magic and meaning lacking in Photo-A-#as of U.S. Beautiful images that coalesce and retain new understanding of the events·that we are usually so close to that we cannot see , and comprehend. Weather, glaciers, terraced rice paddy, cities, elkherds and bird flocks, -swimmers, plowed fields, strip mining, river meanders, bomb craters, desert oasis, and our small earth-hall home. The Map Info~mation Office U.S. Geological Survey Washington, DC 20242 Vertical and low oblique (20° _from vertical) and referral to status of aerial · photography in general. The status of images in any one area changes often, so best write with details of wh~t area you are interested in. Ask ;3,lso for help- 'ful guides, "Twin Low Oblique Phot,ography" and "Status of Aerial Photography." National Ocean Survey Rockville, MD 208S2 Aerial photos mostly o( coastal areas. Aerial Photograp!Jy Division Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Washington, DC 202S0 Especially important if you're looking for a photographi<; description of how things hiwe changed. They have negatives back to 1933 and presently have_ images of over 80~ 9f the nation. • 9onafhan CarverPJ JYorlh Jl.merica ==-===- Fig. 66. The prevailing idea in ·the mid-e(r:htee11th C(!~lury was that North America ·was a sort of pyramid .witli'afl great rivers rising from the Shining Mountains (n the center (From }J. De Voto, The Course of Empi~e~ Houghton Mij]lin, 1952.) Ocean Floor Maps National Geographic Society Washington, DC 20036 Extraordinary views of the world-as the Paul Bunyan ox, Babe, drank the seas dry-its mountain ranges. Lovely blue. We have one in front of our typewriter. $2 .00 each. Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian. Our World From the Air, E. A. Gutleind, 195·2. Also essay "Our World From the Air," in Man's" Role in Changing tbe Face ofthe Earth. • Gutland's pioneering work with aerial images ha.s been 'instrumental in giving 1:1s vis,ual perspective on the patterns of our activities and the changes they have made in our plan.et. Making the City Observable, Richard Saul Wurman, 1971; M.I.T. Press and Walk~r Art ·eenter •• Vinland Place Minneapolis, MN SS403 The scoop on maps and images of cities. Sources of old maps, urban atlases, aerial drawings ~f cities, aerial photographs, guide books, city images, subway maps and speci~l purpose images and maps. . . On a local level, you can often-get aerial maps or reference to resources from State Departments of Geology, Regional Planning Assc;,ciatiOJ;IS and State Highway Departments. Or buy. yourself or a friend· a special treat: rent an airplane and pilot and photograph your home from above. "Viewed froi:n the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing abounhe ~arth, catching the breath, is that it,is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming memb_rane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only-exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos...•. If you had been looking for a very long, geologic time, you could have seen the continents themselves in motion, drifting apart on their crustal • plates, held afloat by the fire beneath. It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of info'rmatit>ri; marvelously skilled in handling the sun.'' , • Lives of a Cell, Le,wis Thomas
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