What a wonderfully beautiful and beautifully strange book this is! Lacking a framework, continuity, thread, or theme, Leibovitz takes us on a wondrous tour of the world as she visits the homes, studios, and environs of 25 of her favorite personae, from Virginia Woolf to Charles Darwin, from Ansel Adams to Robert Smithson.  Where else might you find Elvis Presley, Annie Oakley, Daniel Chester French, John Muir, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in juxtaposition? Rambling and random text which jumps rather than glides from topic to topic is highlighted with beautiful photographs which often appear many pages before or after the relevant text or even without relationship to any text (photos of Old Faithful, eg.) But in the end, one learns a myriad of fascinating facts and feasts one’s eyes on beautiful photos.