The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet
threatened coastline. It zigs and zags for more than 5,500 miles
and assumes a multifaceted, jigsaw shape from the Arctic Circle and
Greenland across the Canadian Maritimes, then southward into Maine,
Cape Cod, New York Harbor, the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, along
the Outer Banks to Charleston Harbor and on to Cape Canaveral. It
ends at the Dry Tortugas on the western tip of the Florida Keys
near the Tropic of Cancer. In this companion book to "West Coast:
Bering to Baja", David Freese has once again captured a vast
coastal region-one that presently faces a major peril from the
rising sea brought about by global climate change and higher
temperatures on land and in the ocean. There are wonderful
surprises here. The remote regions of Greenland, northern Quebec,
Labrador, and Newfoundland offer breathtaking beauty that many
people would not normally associate with the East Coast. As seen
from the air, there are estuaries, fjords, cities, rivers, bays,
wildlife refuges, parks, beaches, and islands that create stunning
abstract shapes which also reveal their fragility in the face of
the increasing sea-level. Simon Winchester, always the master
storyteller, provides the informative and captivating tale about
the geological underpinnings and climatic history of the Atlantic
seaboard, including an ominous view of what lies ahead. Jenna
Butler, an award-winning Canadian author, gives a noteworthy
commentary on Freese's photographs, as she places the images in
context with the expansive North American environment and explains
the effects and risks of global warming to the populations of
Canada and the United States. East Coast: Arctic to Tropic is the
perfect complement to West Coast: Bering to Baja, in which Freese
explored the creation and dangers associated with the North
American portion of the Pacific's Ring of Fire. Together, the books
provide a unique photographic and historical record of these two
remarkably diverse Atlantic and Pacific Coasts at the very start of
a true land-and-sea change brought about by human use of fossil
fuels. In "East Coast: Arctic to Tropic", an extraordinary sequence
of photographs tells the Atlantic tale and reveals an ocean that
lies in wait.
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