Bernhard Edmaier (b.1957) trained as a civil engineer and geologist and has photographed the earth's surface for over 15 years. The result of meticulous planning and research, his extraordinary travels take him from the endless deserts of Africa to the ice plains of Iceland and the coral of the Great Barrier Reef. His abstractly beautiful compositions offer an awe-inspiring view of our planet Dr Angelika Jung-Huttl (b.1957) is a geologist and writer who contributes to a number of different newspapers and popular scientific magazines. She has worked and travelled with Edmaier for 10 years and has written several books on volcanoes, ice and glaciers

1. Introduction 2. Image section divided into five chapters - African plate, Central American plate, North American & Pacific plate, Indo-Australian plate, Eur-Asian plate - consisting of c. 150 large images accompanied by brief descriptive captions. 3. Insights: a selection of illustrated focus studies covering subjects such as tectonic shifts; the life cycle of a volcano; the materials that come out of a volcano - lava flows, volcanic ash etc. - and the impact they have on their immediate surroundings; the internal structure of a volcano; volcanoes and ice; volcanoes and water; erosion and subsidenc; living near volcanoes and the impact of volcanoes on the earth'sclimate. 4. Endmatter: Glossary and Index