This book takes a pictorial look at the nation from above, with over 500 photographs of the United States. Wark, an aerial photographer devoted to the North American continent, has skillfully spied out the mysteries and secrets of this land for years, immortalizing the changing nature of the country, the infinite patterns of cultivated fields, the interlacing of small and large roads, the silence of nature and the convulsive life of the cities. With this book, he takes readers on a thrilling journey over mountains, deserts, mighty rivers, swaths of farmland, and the great cities and landmark skyscrapers, all shown from an aerial vantage point.

This is the America of dreams -- of unlimited space and breathtakingly beautiful countryside – a land of unceasing human activity that drives its continual renewal.