Promotional Information

/ Key title Natural disasters, climate change, the exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our planet at a relentless pace. Now, using one hundred and fifty stunning images from the air, land and space, Fragile Earth brings together the most dramatic natural and man-made events. / Fragile Earth is the first book of its kind to visually demonstrate the environmental changes that are happening to our planet. / Foreword and contributions by renowned authorities on environmental issues. Including Mark Lynas (journalist and author of groundbreaking book 'high tide') and Michael Allaby (prize-winning author of over 80 books on environmental science). / Fantastic website competition will invite the public to enter their own pictures by emailing them to fragile.earth@harpercollins.co.uk. / For more information go to www.collins.co.uk/fragileearth / Competition: Heaven and Earth, Phaidon, Sept 2002, GBP29.95 Planet Earth, Jonathan Cape, Oct 2004, GBP30.00 Orbit, National Geographic, Sept 02, GBP16.99 Extreme Earth, Collins, Oct 2002, GBP30.00 Earth From Space, Firefly/Smithsonian, Dec 2004, GBP34.95 Our Fragile Earth, Thames & Hutson/NI, Oct 2004, GBP24.85

About the Author

Mark Lynas: Author of High Tide: News from a Warming World. Active as a broadcast commentator and journalist. Guy Dauncey: author of Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Climate Change, speaker and sustainable communities consultant . Michael Allaby: Prominent environmental science writer, who has edited and authored many subject books and dictionaries including A Change in the Weather and Facing the Future. Joel Garreau: Journalist and author. Presently he works as the editor in charge of cultural revolution reporting at the Washington Post.