Planet Ice: A Climate for Change
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Planet Ice: A Climate for Change Details
Review Winner: "2009 ASLI Choice" award, for beautiful photography accompanied by thoughtful essays. (Atmospheric Science Librarians International)The reader will be astonished and amazed. (M. George Paregian)(James Martin) traveled to central Africa's Mountains of the Moon, the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas, Greenland, Iceland, and both the the polar ice caps over the course of almost three years, amassing a comprehensive and haunting catalog of the state of Earth's ice. His work, along with essays from Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, geologist Richard Alley, and others, is collected in his book. (Men's Journal) Read more About the Author A trip leader for Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris, JAMES MARTIN has contributed to Outdoor Photographer magazine and has seventeen books to his credit. For the Planet Ice project, he has ventured to Antarctica, Greenland, Baffin Island, the Alaska Range, Mount Everest, Patagonia, Central Africa's Ruwenzori Mountains, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Alps, the Canadian Rockies, Glacier National Park in Montana, Ecuador's volcanoes, Washington State's Cascade Mountains, Alaska's North Slope, the Three Gorges in China's Yunnan Province, and Shishapangma, also in China. He is represented by Getty Images and ImageState. For more information on Martin and his newly released book with Braided River, please visit www.planeticebook.com or Planet Ice. Read more
Reviews
Firstly, the photography in Planet Ice is truly astonishing. The fifteen years that James Martin spent photographing ice, animals and the outdoors shows in this gorgeous account of the rapidly changing ice on earth. This book provides a comprehensive - and stunning - visual view of the true nature of climate change, supported by leaders in the fields on paleoclimatology, glaciology, ice climbing, polar bears and etc. With essays by such voices as Patagonia founder Yvonne Chouinard, glaciologist Gino Casassa, and ice scientist Richard Alley, a well-formed picture of the disturbing truth about our rapidly changing earth is painted and elegantly documented in Martin's images. Whether your desire is to have a deepened understanding of global climate change or to admire exquisitely captured pictures of ice formations, wildlife and wild lands, you're sure to find something special in Planet Ice.
