Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World
author: Gary Braasch
publisher: University of California Press
details: 295 pp., $34.95 cloth, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24438-2
ISBN-10: 0-520-24438-9

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 photojournalist 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.