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Iceland - Wintertide (Hardcover)
David Freese; Contributions by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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Discovery Miles 6 140
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When winter snows cover Iceland in a sea of white, this volcanic
island is transformed into an enchanting visual masterpiece that
precariously rests on two tectonic plates in the North Atlantic
just below the Arctic Circle. Ironically, the white blanket reveals
more clearly the landscape's incredible geological formations and
remote human settlements, eliciting a natural human response of
wonderment. David Freese's profound, ongoing concern for our
environmental predicament is once again manifested in his
photographs of Iceland. By showing us what humankind is on the
brink of losing, his images share and preserve his vision of this
unique and special place. The award-winning Icelandic novelist,
poet, and playwright Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir contributes a
heartfelt afterword that adds her voice to the persistent warnings
and alarms that have gone unheeded by too many for too long. As a
citizen of Iceland, her testimony is that of a compelling witness.
A small jewel of a book, Iceland Wintertide becomes a powerful coda
to David Freese's Trilogy of North American Waters as the threats
and ramifications of a warming climate steadily increase before our
eyes. His photographs provide an added inspiration to act even in
the face of those who purposefully deny only to protect their
special interests.
There is no more beautiful or alluring coast in the world than the
West Coast of North America: a 5,000-mile-long region that extends
from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to Canada's British Columbia,
south to Washington, Oregon, and California, and then to Baja
California in Mexico. No photographer until David Freese has
explored the various and wondrous landscapes along the Pacific
Ocean in such depth, making this the first book to look
comprehensively at what makes the natural beauty of this particular
coast so memorable.Behind the scenery, of course, lie the geologic
forces that have created the West Coast landscapes that we now
admire, explore, and praise. The engaging and informative text by
renowned author Simon Winchester grounds us in understanding the
deep relationship between geology and scenery. And Naomi Rosenblum,
the esteemed photographic historian, writer, curator, and art
critic, firmly establishes David Freese's place among the great
landscape photographers of the past and present. In every
photograph, his unique vision of nature and of place comes shining
through."West Coast: Bering to Baja" is a major publishing
enterprise that will appeal to book-lovers of photography, nature,
and those who dream about visiting and touring North America's West
Coast. For here we see the vital connection between art and science
merge in ways previously unseen for this special region of the
world.To see a beautiful video discussion between the photographer
David Freese and text author Simon Winchester, and some of the
magnificent photography, go to:
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Young Again (Paperback)
David Freeze; Designed by Andy Mooney; Edited by Chris Verner
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America's most important and iconic river has many familiar names:
The Mighty Mississippi, Old Blue, and Ole Man River. In Mississippi
River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf, the third book
of his trilogy on North American Waters, David Freese takes us on a
captivating visual journey from its source at Lake Itasca in
Minnesota 2,552 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico. Freese's
photographs open our eyes to encompass a wide diversity of industry
and farmland, cities and towns, landscapes and wildlife, all the
while revealing the constant flow of goods, grain, and fuel, up and
down the country's major shipping artery. The photographs
illustrate the ongoing dangers posed by increased flooding and the
protective measures taken by the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers to
try and keep a restless river in check. There are environmental
concerns, ranging from habitat loss to agricultural and pesticide
runoff, and the legacy of slavery and the removal of native peoples
persist. It's a river that reveals a complicated past, present, and
future as humankind attempts to control nature. American history
bends and turns in its waters. The noted author Simon Winchester
has written an arresting essay that provides one of the most
compelling descriptions and histories yet written about a river
that is so much more than a familiar name. The foreword by Sarah
Kennel, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in
Atlanta, places Freese's images into the canon of landscape
photography as a magnificent body of work that documents,
critiques, honors, and sanctifies America's most treasured river.
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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