商品描述
The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish. Taking examples from all over the world, this book aims to demonstrate their value for understanding heritage landscapes and for appreciating their aesthetics. It is organised around different types of landscape and the processes that created them, rather than regionally or on the basis of age. It includes a large number of archaeological sites that have been designated as UNESC0 World Heritage Sites. Google Earth has proved to be important for demonstrating some of the threats that major sites have been exposed to, including during recent wars in the Middle East. The landscapes discussed are those of Water Management, Agricultural Management, War, Burial, Mines, Quarries and Salterns, Cities and Settlements, Tells, Theatres, Amphitheatres, and Hippodromes, Churches, Temples, Pagodas, and Mosques, and Geoglyphs.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書的理念是提供精心挑選的 Google Earth 圖像，討論它們所展示的內容，並提供所描繪的文化遺產地點的參考資料，以便讀者如有興趣可以深入了解。這本書以全球各地的例子為基礎，旨在展示這些遺產景觀的價值，以及欣賞其美學。書中是根據不同類型的景觀及其形成過程來組織內容，而非依據地區或年代。它包含了大量被指定為聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）世界文化遺產的考古遺址。Google Earth 在展示一些主要遺址所面臨的威脅方面證明了其重要性，包括最近在中東的戰爭期間。討論的景觀包括水資源管理、農業管理、戰爭、埋葬、礦山、採石場和鹽田、城市和聚落、土堆、劇院、圓形劇場和賽馬場、教堂、寺廟、寶塔和清真寺，以及地面圖形。
作者簡介
Andrew Goudie, PhD, DSc, Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor, former Director of the China Centre, Honorary Fellow of Hertford College and the former Master of St Cross College, is a geomorphologist. He is a recipient of a Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society, the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and the Farouk El-Baz Award of the Geological Society of America. He is a Fellow of the British Society of Geomorphologists. He has been Chair of the British Geomorphological Research Group, President of the Geographical Association, and President of the International Association of Geomorphologists. He has written extensively on geomorphology in some fifty books and 300 scientific papers. He is the author of among others The Landforms of England and Wales (1990), Great Warm Deserts of the World (2002), Arid and Semi-arid Geomorphology (2012), Great Desert Explorers (2016), The Human Impact (2018), Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales (with Piotr Migoń) (2020), Camel Tracks (2021), and (with Denys Brunsden), Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast (2023). Recently he has used Google Earth in three companion volumes: Desert Landscapes of the World with Google Earth (2022), Landscapes of the Anthropocene with Google Earth (2023), and Rocky Landscapes of the World with Google Earth (2024).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
安德魯·古迪（Andrew Goudie），博士、科學博士，牛津大學地理學名譽教授，前副校長，前中國中心主任，哈特福德學院榮譽研究員及聖十字學院前院長，是一位地貌學家。他曾獲得英國皇家地理學會的皇家獎章、蘇格蘭皇家地理學會的芒戈·帕克獎章，以及美國地質學會的法魯克·艾爾-巴茲獎。他是英國地貌學會的會員，曾擔任英國地貌學研究小組主席、地理協會會長及國際地貌學會會長。他在地貌學方面撰寫了約五十本書籍和三百篇科學論文。他的著作包括《英格蘭與威爾斯的地形》（The Landforms of England and Wales，1990年）、《世界偉大的乾燥沙漠》（Great Warm Deserts of the World，2002年）、《乾旱與半乾旱地貌學》（Arid and Semi-arid Geomorphology，2012年）、《偉大的沙漠探險家》（Great Desert Explorers，2016年）、《人類影響》（The Human Impact，2018年）、《英格蘭與威爾斯的景觀與地形》（Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales，與皮奧特·米戈（Piotr Migoń）合著，2020年）、《駱駝足跡》（Camel Tracks，2021年）以及（與丹尼斯·布倫斯登（Denys Brunsden）合著）《侏羅紀海岸的地質先驅》（Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast，2023年）。最近，他在三本伴隨書籍中使用了 Google Earth：《使用 Google Earth 的世界沙漠景觀》（Desert Landscapes of the World with Google Earth，2022年）、《使用 Google Earth 的人類世景觀》（Landscapes of the Anthropocene with Google Earth，2023年）以及《使用 Google Earth 的世界岩石景觀》（Rocky Landscapes of the World with Google Earth，2024年）。
