Penguin Books Australia

Two world-renowned photographers team up with mining experts to illustrate the colourful history of mining and its importance to the development of civilisation as we know it.

This beautiful tome presents that rare moment in which art, technology, the community and environmental consciousness meet.

For Karel Tomei, South Africa is like his second home.  This wild and beautiful landscape is where he lives and works for two to three months a year.  To create this book Tomei travelled the length and breadth of South Africa, from Cape Town to the borders of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana taking his distinctive aerial shots from a two-person helicopter.

Earthsong comprises a spectacular collection of breathtaking aerial photographs of the earth's surface, taken from all over the world. This bookoffers a mesmerizing perspective of the world in which we live, but which we rarely get to glimpse so completely. These images reveal wide stretches of the earth's surface that are untouched by human influence, where nature reigns, natural phenomena dominating...