You can count on National Geographic for dazzling, eye-opening views of the world, and this book of more than 200 color photographs even exceeds the magazine's high standard. In the images here, a rusted fishing boat fleet rests in the Uzbekistani desert, a tigress shakes off water after a bath, Japanese vacationers frolic at an indoor beach; and climbers in the Dolomite Mountains hang in hammocks, high above the abyss. The pictures are flanked by apposite quotes, courtesy of such figures as Frederick Douglass, John Muir, and Thich Nhat Hanh.