Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land by Subhankar Banerjee (Author). It is a land of pristine wilderness, pulsing with life even within the depths of white subzero winter. Completely unscarred by roads or indicators, it is the place in all Alaska the place the polar bear most frequently prefers to the den. It’s host to more than 180 resident and migratory bird species that journey from six continents and all fifty states to nest and rear their young. Because of the huge herds of Porcupine caribou who converge upon the coastal plain to calve each spring, it is named “the American Serengeti.” To the Gwich’ in people, who name the refuge their residence, it is “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.”
The Arctic Nationwide Wildlife Refuge is a touchstone for all individuals, one of the few remaining ecosystems on our planet unaltered by human influence, where true wilderness can still be experienced. However now the refuge is showing indicators of world warming: immense McCall Glacier, measured to have misplaced more than thirty ft in depth within the final forty years; the northward march of the dwarf willow, transferring at a tempo not seen in eight,000 years; the alarming decline of the muskox, pressured to forage the place their calves are weak to predators. And the refuge is additional threatened by oil growth, which would perpetually unravel the delicate pattern of nature found here. Award-profitable photographer Subhankar Banerjee devoted two years of his life to documenting the land, its wild species, and its Native peoples. With Inupiat information Robert Thompson, Banerjee traveled 4,000 miles by the refuge on foot and by raft, kayak, and snowmobile during all 4 seasons. With greater than 200 breathtaking shade photos, “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land” makes this case: leaving the refuge intact in all its mysterious magnificence is significant to the survival of this distinctive ecosystem. Banerjee’ s images are paired with six essays and a foreword by former president Jimmy Carter.
The images are stunning. It tells the story of a place that the proponents of oil drilling within the Refuge known as “white nothingness.” Banerjee proves how fallacious they were. The photographs have upset the White Home or the Republicans so much that they by some means managed to drain a scheduled exhibition of Banerjee’s work at the Smithsonian of all its value. See the New York Instances article of 2 Could 2003, p. A22 This utterly fascinating e book deserves intensive circulation on its merits. In light of the administration’s try and suppress this work at the Smithsonian it is an act of defiance to see that it has maximum circulation!
This evaluation is from: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land (Hardcover)
Take a four season journey via the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and discover the nice variety of life that hallmarks this spectacular refuge. Subhanker Banerjee’s images seize the wildlife, the folks, and the landscape in a means that has not been achieved before. Essays by Peter Mathiessen, David Sibley, Fran Mauer are heartfelt and beautiful.
I went to the exhibit on the Smithsonian final week. Despite the political pressure to maintain the photographs and the captions hidden from the general public, the exhibit is inspirational and uplifting. Too dangerous the Smithsonian does not even have a signal to the exhibit, it’s important to search for it down within the basement. Get even with those who would maintain you from seeing this book–buy it and resolve for yourself if this place is price protecting.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
Subhankar Banerjee (Author)
176 pages
Mountaineers Books; 1 edition (April 2003)
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