Seattle is a city of which it was once said, "lies well in the arms of the land." This book has captured Seattle and the places around it - the raw, threatening beauty of the Cascade Range and that of the Olympics, the great expanses of water, open fields, the buildings, the almost blinding greenness (from the air), the tiny ships below, the virgin forests, the lights at night; a city that has fought to preserve itself, a city that has, over the years, paid the price to maintain its own beauty, of cleanliness and dignity.