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- From: quanbook@world.std.com (Quantum Books)
- Subject: NEW BOOK w/Multimedia CDs: From Alice to Ocean
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- Keywords: multimedia,CD,Australia,Kodak
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:12:19 GMT
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- This is not a technical book in the standard sense, but it is
- a high-tech book for sure. Is there a better place to post
- "books" such as these? Comp.multimedia didn't seem that much
- better a fit...
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- From Alice To Ocean
- by Robyn Davidson and Rick Smolan
- Addison-Wesley Publishing
- ISBN 0-201-63216-0 / 220 pages / CD-ROM & PhotoCD
- $49.95
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- Robyn Davidson is a modern-day heir to the adventuring heroines
- Amelia Earhart, Karen Blixen, and Beryl Markham. Her 1,700 mile
- solo journey across the Australian outback was a cover story in
- _National Geographic_ and her account of her trek, _Tracks_, has
- become a worldwide bestseller with hundreds of thousands of copies
- sold. Now, in this magnificent full-color book, Rick Smolan, who
- originally took the photographs for the _NG_ story, has combined
- Robyn's text with his award-winning photographs, most of which
- have never been published before. What emerges is a suspensful,
- courageous, narrative much in the spirit of his original _Day in
- the Life of Australia_.
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- The book comes bundled with a Kodak PhotoCD, which can be played
- on a TV, and a standard format CD-ROM, which can be used with a
- normal Macintosh CD-ROM drive. The CD material provides an
- interactive audio-visual narrative of stunning quality which
- complements the material in the book. The work represents the
- first introduction and proof of process for Kodak's powerful new
- imaging technology, which is expected to revolutionize photography
- and publishing.
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- For those in the Cambridge area:
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- We will be hosting Rick Smolan and demoing the CD-ROM tomorrow
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