“The Arctic is the greatest wilderness on Earth,” says wildlife
guide and photographer Hälle Flygare. In this beautiful book of
pictures of birds and mammals of the high country and far north,
two eminent biologists (Valerius Geist and Geoff Holroyd) and two
well-travelled nature photographers with many years experience
observing wild animals (Hälle Flygare and Wayne Lynch) depict and
describe the wild survivors of the great ice age. Before that
period, our now-temperate regions were populated by giants: woolly
mammoths, enormous bison, short-faced bears, American cheetahs,
ground sloths, gigantic beavers and deer with 4-metre wide antlers.
But even now, “North” means “big”. This book shows Polar
and Alaska Brown bears, big wild sheep, caribou and cougars;
whales, orcas, narwhals and beluga whales; wolves, golden and bald
eagles, and walrus. But the smaller Arctic mammals and birds are
here too: Arctic fox, hares, otters and geese, loons and ptarmigan.
The backdrop is sometimes snow and ice, sometimes the splendid
colour of a northern autumn, in scarlets and golds, and the blues
of coastal waters. The text is both factual — explaining why the
creatures have evolved to look and behave the way they do — and
revelatory: why we need to slow climate change, reduce poisons and
habitat loss in the environment as bird populations slide. Why
changing the population decline is important to us as humans on
Planet Earth. What we should, and can, do.
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