Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places

I bought this for my parents for a house warming gift. It is the typical high quality photography associated with National Geographic. Only weakness is that being so large it seems to not be bound extremely well. Has to be handled carefully. Very good.

It's an injustice to try to put into words the beauty of art this striking, so I'll only say that this collection showcases full-frame shots of our earth and its inhabitants in scores of wondrous, multi-page images from the distant and recent past. In this book you'll find cityscapes, forests, people, animals, scenes from under water, from the air, on mountaintops, and amid man-made sites, even an abrupt close-up shot of a toothy alligator that I challenge you not to jump back at when you turn the page. Wide Angle is investment that is worth the price: and a bargain price at that!

I have read basically all of the special editions from National Geographic, and this is without a doubt one of the best. The quality, variety and scope of the photographs, as well as the written articles accompanying them were just a piece of art. Enjoyable from the beginning to the end.

What could be better than a huge book filled with photos and essays from around the world? Once again, National Geographic delivers the photos and stories you would expect from them. I love the book.

National Geographic Magazine has long been recognized for the quality of its color photographs by its brilliant staff of photographers who manage to go to places both known and unknown and open vistas of other cultures, other peoples, other landscapes. In this very large and exceptionally affordable volume are some of NG's finest images plus many dazzling photographs not previously published in the magazine. The result is a panorama of the world as few other books can supply. Covering nearly all the countries of the world, WIDE ANGLE uses its descriptor to unfold some remarkable images of fields and terrain and the peoples who inhabit them, all composed beautifully with NGs typical 'hidden camera' technique. This is a travel volume for those who plan to visit the out of the ordinary places as well as a scrapbook for those who have been to the more accessible places, but is it more: this is a closer look at the planet we inhabit that is so magnificent it urges us by images alone to protect the beauty we threaten to destroy. Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06