Books: Booked For The Holidays

December, 2002

See things from Santa's perspective in Planet Earth (Knopf), a collection of satellite images taken from space. For a glimpse of the world's highest peak, tackle Everest (Becker and Mayer), Matt Dickinson's collection of photographs, stories and pullout maps of the Himalayan mountains. Then journey back to a better Cuba in Cuba Style (Princeton Architectural), a compilation of graphics and advertisements from the pre-Castro era. Vahé Gérard's Cigars (Flammarion) may fool your friends into thinki...