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The latest book by the award-winning photographer Bernhard Edmaier presents his stunning vistas of water in awe-inspiring views of our planet. In his seminal photography books, Bernhard Edmaier capturesdreamy, color-saturated, seemingly abstract images of earthfrom above. In this new volume, Edmaier looks at water--fromboth the air and the ground--as a source of life and one of themost important landscape-shaping forces on earth. Readerswill be enthralled by Edmaier's stunning shots of water in allits forms--rivers and streams, deltas and floodplains, surgingon the coasts, frozen in glaciers, as vaporous clouds, and thespray over erupting volcanoes. Edmaier covers familiar and farflunglocations on every continent: from Alaska to the AmericanSouthwest; Costa Rica to Chile and Argentina; Canada,Greenland, and Russia; from Germany and Switzerland, to Italy,Croatia, Iceland, and Norway; from Djibouti to Kenya, Tanzania,Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo; along withAustralia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.