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A Hostile Beauty: Life on Macquarie Island
Contributor(s): Dermer, Alistair (Author), Wood, Danielle (Author)

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 ISBN: 0522855040     ISBN-13: 9780522855043
Publisher: Melbourne University
OUR PRICE: $58.90  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Special Interest - Ecotourism
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Dewey: 919.48
LCCN: 2012518481
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.5" W x 11.2" L (2.45 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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