This rare and beautiful book of photos of the Earth from space is an ode to our planet's mesmerizing beauty and fragility.

A deliberately artistic take from a photographer of great sensitivity, that's how astronaut Thomas Pesquet conceived of this book collecting the photos he took while on his mission to the International Space Station. These reveal the Earth, our planet, our fragile and final common property,in all its varied finery : vast deserts, quilted farmland, islands dotting azure seas, metropolises aglitter in the night. Terra(s) is named for its many facets, by turns mineral and vegetable, arid and aquatic, wild and tamed, empty and crowded, unclassifiable and sublime.