Spirit of the Wild - Steve Bloom
KORTE INHOUD
Unforgettable images of the natural world by a best-selling photographer that will delight and inform. A snow monkey emerges from a hot spring. A Camargue horse streaks through a marsh in a blur of movement. Brown bears from Alaska wait in a waterfall for sockeye salmon. Scarlet and blue-yellow macaws sweep across the Peruvian sky. Red-crowned cranes gather to feed in snow-covered Japanese marshland. A bright-eyed baby sifaka clings to its mother as she hops along in Madagascar sunlight. A bottlenose dolphin skims over Honduran waters at breathtaking speed... At first fired by curiosity, Steve Bloom's photographic explorations of the natural world were soon imbued with a fierce urgency as the full force of man's destruction of the environment and its creatures was revealed to him. His goal has been to search for the spirit of the world's wildlife, from the tiger's eyes gleaming brightly in the jungles of India to polar bear cubs seeing the world for the first time to the few mountain gorillas left in Africa. ...
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2006Uitgever: Thames & Hudson128 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 252x297ISBN-10: 0500513201ISBN-13: 9780500513200Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original hardcover, dust jacket, oblong, (full-page) colour photographs.; Small tear dust jacket repaired. [Auteur: Bloom, Steve] [Pagina's: 128] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London : Thames and Hudson] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Spirit of the Wild]
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Steve Bloom's goal has been to search for the spirit of the world?s wildlife: the tiger?s eyes gleaming brightly in the jungles of India; polar bear cubs seeing the world for the first time; the few mountain gorillas left in Africa. The result is a perpetual dance for the eye which reveals not only the animals but much that is new to us about ourselves. Accompanied by his own commentaries, as passionate as they are informed, and thought-provoking quotes from legendary figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Gerald ...
