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摘要

Earth Under Fire could have easily been titled Gary Braasch's Global Warming World Tour; with his camera lens and personal experiences, Braasch crafts a global warming tour de force that leaves the reader calling for an encore. This multiple award-winning photojour-nalist has clearly fine-tuned his communications skills, and in 216 pages (plus 51 more for index, acknowledgements, references, and notes) he treats the reader to 93 photographs, 11 maps, 4 diagrams, and 12 sidebars. The sidebars are well-placed within the text and used effectively to communicate details that would otherwise disrupt the flow of a narrative by an author deeply concerned with the state of Earth. Despite the number of photographs and the large format of Earth Under Fire, this is not your standard coffee-table book. The photographs Braasch and his editors have selected, along with well-written captions, stand on their own as mini-lessons. Even the reader who only flips through the book and stops to read a caption or two will walk away with a piqued curiosity, and most will be drawn to the text for more.