The United States of America

📙 Rock and sand-fringed coastlines and chilly mountain heights, tropical swamplands and dense stands of rain forests, rolling fertile plains and awesome arid deserts - the incredible diversity of landscape and climate is the most striking aspect of the West's most powerful nation and the fourth most populous in the world - the United States of America. Here, in full colour reproduction, is presented a collection of beautiful photographs that illustrates the splendor and variety of this huge land that over the past four centuries has become home for immigrants from all over the globe, all eager to start a new and invariably better way of life. As well as the very different landscapes, ranging from the vast plains of the wheat-growing Prairie States to the arid deserts of Arizona and Utah; from the swamplands of Florida to the majestic coastlines of Maine and California, there are many fine and fascinating cities. Cities such as Washington D.C, with its gracious White House and Capitol Building; New York, with its famous Statue of Liberty and unforgettable skyline; Boston and Philadelphia, rich in colonial history; endearing San Francisco, renowned for its Golden Gate Bridge and cable cars, and Miami, the winter playground of the rich, at the tip of Florida. Here is a glimpse into the fifty states that comprise the rich tapestry of a dynamic country that exerts a compelling fascination for so many people all over the world.