You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station Hardcover – October 14, 2014

Classic "coffee table book." Good quality print full of stunning images. Puts things in perspective for a simple earth bound person...

FOLLOW-UP (1/26/15): I went to B&N to look for other copies of this book and found that I must have gotten a copy off of a bad press run. The copy I got was very badly printed (see below) and never should have been sold. But other copies, if B&N samples are indicative, are OK.SEND BACK BAD COPIES: see below for example of how badly some (hundreds, perhaps) copies may be. They should be sent back immediately.THE IDEAL: I just got DK Smithsonian's "The Planets" (2014), a new book from the library that is SPLENDIDLY printed. "You are Here", even the OK copies from my B&N sample, are not even close in quality to "The Planets".So even though MAYBE "You Are Here" is worth buying, it is still of very mediocre quality printing; very disappointing................... (first review).................If I were the author I'd be absolutely furious with the printer. These photos should be photographic quality. A few are fine but the majority are poor to very bad.GRAIN: You can easily see the grain in almost every photo. This is inexcusable in a book printed on photographic paper.SATURATION: many of the photos are over-saturated with colors being garish instead of bright and beautiful. A lot of enhanced NASA and astronaut photography is "false color" and meant to be shocking and bold, which is purposeful and effective. But the problem here is in the printing, not the enhancement.In a word, almost none of the photos are enticing and awe-inspiring. Some are actually repulsive they are so poorly done. I had high hopes for this book. I know full well what is possible and what this book should have been. It is a huge disappointment.MY OWN ATTEMPT: I myself have downloaded and printed up many NASA/astronaut photos very similar to those in the book. I was even planning to publish a book of such copyright-free photos because they print so beautifully. After looking at "You Are Here" I got down my own draft of my book to double check to be sure I was not over reacting ... and, indeed, ALL my prints, done on a good but not highest quality color inkjet printer (Canon Pro 9000) are beautiful as they should normally be - a tribute to the JPGs available for free and not needing any enhancement at all. They are, like this book should have been, so fine that they draw the eye into the minute and endlessly fascinating detail and stunning beauty that characterizes much of astronaut photography.Don't buy this book. My condolences to Mr. Hadfield who must be very, very disappointed.Of course, the fault could be his as well as the printer's. I published a WWII book on 100% photo stock paper with over 100 B/W prints. I spent an average of 3-4 hours per scanned photo JPG to be sure they would proof and print well. I can tell you for a certainty without all that prep work, the photos would have been much worse no matter what any printer did with them.But, really, the grainy printing is not likely Mr. Hadfield's fault but is a lousy print job no matter what prep went into the photos. What a waste of paper, money, his time, your time.------------------------DOWNLOADS: anybody can download and freely use photos - [...] ... there are other sources of government space photography but that is one I have on RSS feed and use all the time.

I heard Commander Chris Hadfield speaking about this book on Travel with Rick Steves on NPR. I immediately got on my phone, and one click ordered. The book arrived the next day, which was impressive- but that was the only impressive thing regarding this purchase. It is small, and the paper doesn't lend itself well to the images. Based on the experiences Mr. Hadfield was describing, the amazing things he has observed from the ISS- I feel that these photographs are a let down. They look like they could have been taken with a long lens from an airplane. The funny graphics included diminished the impact of the images. I thought for a moment about taking this to my classroom for my fourth graders to enjoy, but decided to return it instead. I never have returned a book before. This is my experience, and after reading 5 star reviews, perhaps I am in a limited minority.

Gift for my husband. Fabulous book, we keep it on our coffee table and its great to pick up and look through the photos. See new things all the time

For the rest of my life, this will be one of my most favorite books ever!And on my birthday, last Thursday, my friend treated me to a movie, which was/is "The Martian" (which was exquisite, by the way), and one of the final end-credits was... CHRIS HADFIELD HIMSELF!!! I applauded out loud.This book makes me cry in the best of ways. Astronaut Hadfield really put his heart and soul into the photographs, and the accompanying text for each of these splendid, mind-blowing photos of our home planet.THIS is the book to give to others as a gift, after you've treated YOURSELF to it.

This was a gift,but I did take a moment to flip through the pages. The pictures are fantastic and would recommend this as a wonderful coffee table book for any one

Every human being who is alive (as I write this) and ever has been has lived on planet Earth, but few of us have ever seen our home from space. Hadfield has, but rather than reporting "just the facts," he shows himself to have an artistic sensibility, and also ushers us into not just his mind's eye, but the vision of his very soul in this small but delightful photographic ode to life on Mother Earth in all its beauty, glory and occasional ugliness. Buy this book if you have the slightest interest in how our home looks from high above.

This book is GORGEOUS and interesting and did I mention GORGEOUS? The quality is nice and everyone who's picked it up has spent a lot of time looking through it 'oohing' and 'aaahing' over the pictures and pouring over the captions. We love Chris Hadfield and followed his time on the ISS carefully. This book is very special to us! Thanks Mr. Hadfield for such a quality book. Also, thank you for your donation to the MJF foundation, it means a lot to us!

This book contains some 120 photographs of places on the earth taken from the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Hadfield took about 45,000 images during his flight, so this is a fairly small, but nevertheless fascinating, sample.Looking at these images, one is often amazed that the photos are of the earth. It shows a level of detail that is absent from maps. There are quite a few cases when the photos look like abstract art and they can be beautiful, curious and strange in various measures. This also applies to the ones showing the effects of human habitation, but also including, in at least one case, a disturbing one, namely a graphic portrayal of the consequences of deforestation in Madagascar (pp. 22-23).Although we are now accustomed to seeing imagery taken from space, the nice thing about this collection is that they are all taken by human hand, not robotically from an Earth observation satellite. Hadfield’s informative comments on the photos are brief, since this is primarily a book of images.I have one remark for those of us, like me, who find their knowledge of geography challenged. It is not, in general, straightforward, to relate the images to a corresponding classical atlas view of each location. The book contains a low-resolution world map showing the locations of the places in the photos, but this is too coarse to permit easy reference comparison with an atlas. There is another aspect to this, namely, that the orientation or, more precisely, projection of the ISS photos is linked to the flight path, so a certain amount of rotation of each image might be needed to get a match with the corresponding conventional map representation. So all the more need to be sure you’re looking in the right part of the map. It follows that it would have been useful to have precise latitude and longitude coordinates for each photo, suitable for use for look up in, say, Google Maps or the Times Atlas of the World. But don’t let this put you off the book, which is worth buying for the beautiful photos alone.I can heartily recommend this book.

I loved this book.The way that Chris Hadfield ties the images to parts of the Earth that the reader can understand makes it so much more interesting and accessible.Who knew you could see the smoke from Australian bushfires from space...Some of these photos really do look like works of art, even though some of them highlight the real devastation caused by humans.I would recommend for anyone who is interested in space, astronomy and/or photography.

This is a great book, lots of stunning satellite photos, but then we can all access such photos for free on the internet, so in that sense the book is a little superfluous. However I'm glad I bought it simply because Chris is a great guy who has provided some wonderful Youtube clips from the International Space Station, and buying his book is a way of giving him a little back. It's a good coffee table book, or christmas present.

Once the size of the pictures had been fitted on one’s screen, they were amazing to appreciate. Beautiful. I was looking at them for a project about cosmic matters and getting an overview of Earth. It would best be used as a coffee table book, always available to look at on a regular basis.The

Fascinating compilation of pictures taken by Chris - so at first you think - I've seen better, clearer, where they have been deliberately shot by the space station but... this is what Chris saw and took the photographs himself (and he has an eye, undeniably) and the more you immerse yourself in them the most you both see and realise that these are a testimony to his experience on the shuttle and what he saw and now you get to see his memories as he does... that is a privilege indeed...