A Hostile Beauty: Life on Macquarie Island - Hardcover
With stunning landscape photographs and informative essays, this pictorial explores Australia’s Macquarie Island, a sliver of unexpected rock in the vast Southern Ocean. Touching upon the island’s unique history including shipwrecks, seal slaughters, and a damaged ecosystem resulting from human interference this record with an ecological theme is a tribute to one of the world’s great wildlife refuges.
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Alistair Dermer is in natural resource management and worked on Macquarie Island with the Australian Antarctic Division, Conservation Volunteers Australia, Greencorp, and, most recently, to Bush Heritage Australia. Danielle Wood is a creative writing teacher at the University of Tasmania in Australia. She is a former journalist, producer with ABC Radio, and media officer for Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service.
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0522855040
- ISBN 13 9780522855043
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.There are few places today that are truly wild.Macquarie Island is still one such place-a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants- gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth. Macquarie Island--a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica--is still one such place. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780522855043
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