Hostile Beauty: Life on Macquarie Island
Alistair Dermer,Danielle Wood$38.25
$45.00
There are few places today that are truly wild.
Macquarie Island is still one such place--a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.
Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants: gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 09/01/2011
ISBN: 9780522855043
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.50w x 0.80d
Macquarie Island is still one such place--a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.
Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants: gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 09/01/2011
ISBN: 9780522855043
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.50w x 0.80d