Deserts of the Earth

The world’s most fascinating places

Deserts - the fascination of deserts in a magnificent coffee table book

Mysterious, unique and sometimes seemingly from another planet, the deserts of the earth are revealed to us in this extraordinary coffee table book. The breathtaking landscape photography in this opulent coffee table book takes us across all continents. The Sahara with its barren rocky deserts and sandy deserts, gigantic dunes that wind elegantly and majestically into the far distance, the harsh ice deserts of the Antarctic, endless steppes and the vastness of salt deserts and high-altitude deserts in America: this marvellous coffee table book reveals the diversity of the world’s deserts in an impressive way.

The deserts of the earth in a captivating interplay of light, colour and endless expanse

Only at first glance does the world of steppe, salt lake, savannah and tundra appear barren: this fascinating coffee table book is a masterpiece of nature photography, capturing the vibrancy of deserts around the globe.
Philippe Bourseiller has created a fascinating portrait of the earth with this extravagant travel photo book, travelling through Africa, Arabia, America, the Arctic and Antarctica: Majestic like the Gobi Desert, mystical like the Sahara with its sweeping dunes and fertile oases, archaic like the Namib, the ＂Great Void＂, species-rich and picturesque like the Kalahari or the Colorado desert - the variety and colourfulness of the landscape photography in this coffee table book is always remarkable.

Impressive coffee table book by the award-winning nature photographer

Philippe Bourseiller is a landscape photographer with a mission: for over four decades, he has been documenting the beauty of the wilderness with his camera and campaigning for the preservation of (still) unspoilt natural areas. Honoured with the World Press Award and the Visa d’Òr, his extraordinary photography has already filled over 25 books. With this coffee table book about the world’s most marvellous deserts, he has created a fascinating portrait of the world’s deserts - perfect as a gift for all lovers of landscape photography!