Atlas of North America : Space Age portrait of a continent.

One of those rare volumes that serves both as an unabashedly beautiful coffee-table book and also as a valuable source for the student. The object of the atlas is to look at North America from a Landsat viewpoint, and to correlate those Landsat images with standard maps. For each area in North America (e.g., Four Corners), text, map, Landsat image, agency addresses, national-land areas (e.g., state parks and forests) are supplied. One disaster from the library point of view: it will be impossible to rebind what promises to be a heavily used atlas, since all maps and imagery are guttered. The only flaw is the National Geographic Society's flowery prose style. This is an excellent purchase for US undergraduate and graduate institution libraries; not only is it useful, it is fun to look at.-M.L. Larsgaard, Colorado School of Mines