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Polar Obsession (2009)

by Paul Nicklen(Favorite Author)

4.61 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1426205112 (ISBN13: 9781426205118)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Focal Point

review 1: Extraordinary book for both the text and the photos. Some of the photos are blurred, but so would yours be if you were shooting in water at 1 degree centigrade. Plenty of "nature red in tooth and claw." Not one for the kiddies. There is a passage in which he develops a definite relationship with a female leopard seal who thinks he is hungry and keeps bringing him penguins that he declines to eat; so she does.Both Arctic and Antarctica are in here.If you thought highly of Arctic Dreams you'll be on course for this book.
review 2: Very good photographic work and some compelling stories. I'd rate it 4* if it weren't for the recurring occurrences in the text where something drastic is about to happen only to present itself a last second salvation. Don't get m... moree wrong, I respect the (potentially dangerous) situations Paul Nicklen might have been into but I found the writing style a bit "too dramatic" for my taste in these cases. But, a very good book for any person's shelf, nature photographer connoisseur or not. less

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