Product Review
America from the Air is an illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapes seen from airplane windows across the United States. This is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seat while flying over the United States. Through its ingenious construction and a map of preferred flight paths, its easy to find those pages that correspond to whatever flight a passenger happens to be on, and then to identify features that can be seen from the air.
Each two-page spread features an aerial photo with captions identifying features passengers will see and an essay interpreting the features. Each chapter is a Flight Corridor, with pages sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff to landing. Because many flight paths overlap, the fifteen corridors cover the forty most heavily traveled flight segments in the continental United States, plus many others. In many regions of the country, readers will have a new page to read about every twenty minutes.
America from the Air is written by two authors. Daniel Mathews is a writer who has always been enamored of views from mountains. He is the author of Cascade-Olympic Natural History and Rocky Mountain Natural History. James S. Jackson is a consulting geologist and adjunct professor of geology at Portland State University. He has flown about two million miles on commercial flights.
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