A Hostile Beauty

Life on Macquarie Island

von Alistair Dermer, Danielle Wood

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780522855043
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2011
• Größe: 302 x 220 mm
• Verlag: Melbourne University