Wild Land: A Journey Into the Earth's Last Wilds - Hardcover

by Peter Pickford (Author), Beverly Pickford (Author)

Spanning seven continents, Wild Land: A Journey into the Earth's Last Wilds showcases a unique journey to document and protect the last untouched expanses of wilderness. In more than two hundred awe-inspiring images, renowned wildlife photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford portray the epic visual story of some of the most remote and pristine places on the planet, from Africa's savannahs to Tibet's highest peaks, Alaska's expansive system of rivers and lakes, to the Antarctic Ocean.

This book about wild land and wildlife is also the fascinating tale of the Pickfords' own adventures once they chose to devote their lives to the search for untouched wilderness areas. And most of all, this unique book also expresses the timely and urgent message to protect wilderness areas for future generations and for the future of our planet.

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It is a sense that comes to you from beyond your senses. It seeps through your skin: through the sweat on your back and the wet soles of your boots, through the back of the hand that you wipe against your forehead. It is an instinctive knowledge that you are the "rst. When this is true, the hair at the back of your neck stands a little erect. It is the anticipation of wild land.

Four years. Seven continents. An unprecedented quest to document and preserve our last remaining wild lands.

In more than 200 striking images, acclaimed photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford have created an epic, unparalleled portrait of some of our planet's most untouched places: from the heat-beaten country of Namibia's Skeleton Coast to Alaska and the Yukon's abundance of water, in ocean, river, and lake; from the subantarctic islands' wind-tossed shores in the south to the Arctic's immense expanses of cracked pancake ice in the north; and the dazzling juxtaposition of desert and water in Australia's Kimberley to the remote, frozen peaks of Tibet and Patagonia. Within these extreme landscapes, Beverly and Peter's images illuminate and celebrate myriad forms of life: polar bears, rhinoceroses, and bharal, as well as the humble lichen, are all evocatively pictured within the landscapes upon which they depend. !is is a wildlife book like no other, its images aching with what words struggle to describe: the resonance of wilderness in our inner being, the power of land to transform our emotion, and our ability to transcend the immediate to become sublime.

Wild Land's stunning images are accompanied by a fascinating text in which Peter not only vividly describes the photographers' adventures in pursuit of wild land, but also delivers a timely message that highlights the urgent need for these lands to be preserved for the future of the planet-- a future on which humankind's very survival is dependent.