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Title: POLES APART
PARALLEL VISIONS OF THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC
By: Galen Rowell, Galen Rowell (Photos)
Format: Paperback

List price: £32.95


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ISBN 10: 0520209028
ISBN 13: 9780520209022
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 30 May, 1997
Pages: 184
Description: This work takes the reader on a visual journey to the top and bottom of the world, using the camera to reveal the fascinating differences in these polar opposites. Photographs and essays compare and contrast the differences between the two areas and technical photographic information is provided.
Synopsis: The harsh beauty of the polar regions has long fascinated explorers and armchair adventurers alike. The forbidding terrain and exotic life-forms appeal to our sense of wonder, and while we may think of them as similar, the Arctic and Antarctic are as unlike as Kansas and Kenya. In Poles Apart, Galen Rowell takes us on an exhilarating visual journey to the top and the bottom of the world, using his camera to reveal the fascinating differences in these polar opposites. In Part I, Rowell's side-by-side photographs highlight the contrasts between North and South. The photo essays of Part II continue the comparisons, developing such themes as Arctic and Antarctic science, polar bears and penguins, and visits to the North and South Poles. Part III provides detailed information on the story behind each photograph as well as technical data of interest to photographers. Galen Rowell is known for choosing subjects that, while beautiful, are unfamiliar to much of his audience. Yet his books enjoy wide appeal because he accurately focuses--in images and words--on the essential spirit that sets his subjects apart from the rest of the world.So it is with the distant lands and seas of the polar regions, which hold valuable lessons for all of us concerning evolution, geology, history, human endeavor, and the impact of human greed. No other vast areas of the earth remain as pristine, and for Rowell, the Arctic and Antarctic have become metaphors for those intangible elements that define the earth's wild places. In a world fast becoming a theme park of artificial experience, his book is an invitation to understand and appreciate what is real.
Illustrations: 188 colour plates, 2 maps
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
Returns: Returnable
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