Our Beautiful, Fragile World Front Cover

Our Beautiful, Fragile World

  • Length: 124 pages
  • Edition: 1
  • Publisher:
  • Publication Date: 2013-12-12
  • ISBN-10: 1937538346
  • ISBN-13: 9781937538347
  • Sales Rank: #1468128 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

Our Beautiful, Fragile World features a career-spanning look at the images of photojournalist Peter Essick taken while on assignment for National Geographic magazine. In this book, Essick showcases a diverse series of photographs from some of the most beautiful natural areas in the world and documents major contemporary environmental issues, such as climate change and nuclear waste.

Each photograph is accompanied by commentary on the design process of the image, Essick’s personal photographic experiences, and informative highlights from the research he completed for each story. Our Beautiful, Fragile World takes the reader on a journey around the globe, from the Oulanka National Park near the Arctic Circle in Finland to the Adelie penguin breeding grounds in Antarctica.

Our Beautiful, Fragile World will interest photographers of all skill levels. It carries an important message about conservation, and the photographs provide a compelling look at our environment that will resonate with people of all ages who care about the state of the natural world.

Foreword by Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Trobriand Islands: A Microcosm of our Dwindling Resources
  3. The Golden Grain: Before a Tarnished Image
  4. Creating a New World: Wasting Water Along the Way
  5. No Dam Good: Too Many People
  6. Inner Japan: Zen and the Art of Living Close to Nature
  7. On the Environmental Beat: Finding a New Voice
  8. Fish Story: Clean Water and Well-to-Do Anglers
  9. California Desert Lands: The Sublime and the Desolate
  10. Our National Forests: Spotted Owls and Smog-Stressed Trees
  11. The Colorado: A River Not Quite as Grand
  12. Mother Nature: The Perfect Collaborator
  13. Easy Ways of the Altamaha: Time to Reflect
  14. American Wilderness: A System Like No Other
  15. Dangerous Work: A Close Call in Tracy Arm, Alaska
  16. A Trip to Mars: Exploring Wilderness in the High North
  17. Mining Hard Rocks: Polluting, Royalty-Free
  18. Butte, Montana: Long After the Boom Went Bust
  19. New Caledonia: Endemic Plants and Nickel Mining
  20. The Boreal: A Great Forest Under Threat
  21. Three Mile Island: Where Nuclear Hopes Melted Down
  22. Photographing the Infinity Room: Timing is Everything
  23. Global Freshwater: Not Enough to Go Around
  24. Pink Waters: Along the Yellow River
  25. The Most Beautiful Place in the World: IMHO
  26. The Carbon Cycle: Reporting on Disturbing News
  27. The Amazon: Lungs of the Earth, Burning
  28. Climate Change: The Atmosphere Doesn’t Lie
  29. Climate Change: Bugs Like it Better than Frogs
  30. The Maldives: A Coral Paradise Slipping Away
  31. Adélie Penguins: A Boat Ride to Remember
  32. Climate Scientists: Our Modern-Day Prophets
  33. The Chesapeake: Why Can’t We Save the Bay?
  34. Afternoon Thunderstorm: Nonpoint Source Pollution
  35. Modern Chemistry: Convenient with some Side Effects
  36. Nicaraguan Grown: Cigars with a Touch of Fungicide
  37. The Eyeless Child: Looking for Justice in a Dark World
  38. Chance Encounter: A Symbol of Technology Gone Wrong
  39. Plastics: Cheap, Durable, and Hard to Recycle
  40. An Ozark Snowstorm: Worth the Drive
  41. Darwin at 200: An Extraordinary Voyage and Place
  42. Canadian Oil Sands: Money Can Justify Anything
  43. A Tragic Beauty: Two Wings to Fly
  44. Finnish Moonlight: Sometimes it All Works Out
  45. Adapting to Change: An Example from Greenland
  46. Midday Light, Low Tide: The Best Time to Photograph
  47. Fraser Island: Pure Dingoes and Dunes
  48. Ansel Adams Wilderness: Let the Mountains Talk
  49. Lake Erie: A Not-So-Natural Summer Green
  50. The Mermaid Show: Florida Before the Sprawl
  51. Fertilizer: Can’t Live Without It or With It
  52. Afterword
  53. Acknowledgements
  54. Technical Information
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