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Earth – Spirit of Place is book featuring more that 175 stunning Earth images, mostly taken from the International Space Station by Canadian uber-astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield. Each mind-bending photo is underscored by Hadfield's achingly simple and poetic thoughts, Tweeted from space over a period of five months. This collection of the images and thoughts that propelled Hadfield into international stardom and cemented his place in the pantheon of flying heroes and space legends makes a perfect pairing with Hadfield's worldwide best-selling memoir, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.
Available from Indigo, Chapters and Coles in Canada ~ Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com in the United States
Customers in the UK and Europe: Ask your bookseller to order from BERTRAM BOOKS wholesaler
ISBNs Hard Cover 9781894673679 ~ Soft Cover 9781894673686
" Flying in space, I was endlessly moved by the inherent, unstoppable beauty of our planet Earth.
This book does a marvellous job of bringing that rare beauty home for all to see. Worth many long looks."
Chris Hadfield, Astronaut
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have many tasks, but a consistent favorite is taking photographs of Earth. The ISS astronauts don’t just take digital images randomly. The photos they shoot are part of a well-defined program of data collection coordinated through the Crew Earth Observations team at Johnson Space Center. Current research targets include glaciers, deltas, urban areas, coral reefs, megafans (inland deltas), and long-term ecological monitoring sites. Dynamic events such as hurricanes, dust storms, volcanic eruptions, and fires are also imaged when possible. Astronauts also document the growth and change of human-made features, such as cities. The database of astronaut photography is freely accessible via the Internet and has made this book possible.
Like millions of you, I have taken great delight in following Chris Hadfield since his Soyuz launch in 2012. And it is now a privilege to produce this book celebrating a selection of many of Chris’ beautiful and evocative photographs taken during his five months on the International Space Station (ISS). For his more than 1,000,000 Twitter followers, you will also find his artful tweets enlivening captions of his images. Complementing his photos are a number of NASA satellite shots captured by various orbital platforms over the last few years.
Chris and his family were determined that they would use social media to communicate the experience of space exploration in a most personal way. As millions of you know, he was successful beyond anyone's expectations. Pallab Ghosh of BBC News observed that; “He has probably become the most famous astronaut since the days of Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin.” Couldn’t agree more. Ever the great communicator, Chris has his own book, widely available around the world. (Click cover below) John McQuarrie, Editor and Publisher
Customers in the UK and Europe: Ask your bookseller to order from BERTRAM BOOKS wholesaler
ISBNs Hard Cover 9781894673679 ~ Soft Cover 9781894673686
" Flying in space, I was endlessly moved by the inherent, unstoppable beauty of our planet Earth.
This book does a marvellous job of bringing that rare beauty home for all to see. Worth many long looks."
Chris Hadfield, Astronaut
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have many tasks, but a consistent favorite is taking photographs of Earth. The ISS astronauts don’t just take digital images randomly. The photos they shoot are part of a well-defined program of data collection coordinated through the Crew Earth Observations team at Johnson Space Center. Current research targets include glaciers, deltas, urban areas, coral reefs, megafans (inland deltas), and long-term ecological monitoring sites. Dynamic events such as hurricanes, dust storms, volcanic eruptions, and fires are also imaged when possible. Astronauts also document the growth and change of human-made features, such as cities. The database of astronaut photography is freely accessible via the Internet and has made this book possible.
Like millions of you, I have taken great delight in following Chris Hadfield since his Soyuz launch in 2012. And it is now a privilege to produce this book celebrating a selection of many of Chris’ beautiful and evocative photographs taken during his five months on the International Space Station (ISS). For his more than 1,000,000 Twitter followers, you will also find his artful tweets enlivening captions of his images. Complementing his photos are a number of NASA satellite shots captured by various orbital platforms over the last few years.
Chris and his family were determined that they would use social media to communicate the experience of space exploration in a most personal way. As millions of you know, he was successful beyond anyone's expectations. Pallab Ghosh of BBC News observed that; “He has probably become the most famous astronaut since the days of Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin.” Couldn’t agree more. Ever the great communicator, Chris has his own book, widely available around the world. (Click cover below) John McQuarrie, Editor and Publisher
Astronaut Marc Garneau put it best.
Hadfield brought the space station and the space experience
to a large number of people by sharing not only his pictures
and his comments on Twitter, but also by sharing his emotions
and that’s something that people really want to hear about.
Marc Garneau, Canada
Challenger 6, November 1998
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An interesting addition to the book's captions is a “Location” for many photos that were not located by NASA. This data was provided by Dave MacLean, who just happens to teach a computer mapping course at a community college in Nova Scotia, and Peter Caltner, an Austrian translator. They share an ability and enthusiasm for such sleuthing. Techniques they use include: recognizing geologic and/or topographic features; using photo time and ISS location, and; the online NASA database of ISS images to then fine-tune the location of each image. Some photographs need a portion of each technique; some just need luck. In every case, it’s fun to find identifiable features on the ground that match the images.
To view Dave’s ISS photo locator (www.bit.ly/ISSImagesMapped) click image at left.
Peter and Dave's twitter handles are @pc0101 and @DaveAtCOGS”
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