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| Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery | 
| Author: Bruce Hampton
Creator: Robert Glenn Ketchum
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
Buy New: $28.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1027476
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 12.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0893819670
Dewey Decimal Number: 639.27560916434
EAN: 9780893819675
ASIN: 0893819670
Publication Date: September 1, 2001
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Product Description
In his most stunningly beautiful book to date, renowned landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum turns his encompassing and color-rich vision to the vast habitat and fisheries resources of southwest Alaska and Bristol Bay. With his artist's eye for color, texture, and extraordinary detail, Ketchum's large and powerful images capture the immense richness of this magnificently wild country.
Framed between some of Alaska's most spectacular mountain ranges and the northern Pacific, here lies the spawning ground of the world's largest population of sockeye salmon. It is also one of the last productive wild fisheries remaining on earth, providing bountiful harvests for a host of dependent creatures—from whales to grizzlies to fishermen.
Co-author Bruce Hampton provides an engaging and comprehensive essay on the life history of sockeye salmon, the region's commercial and sport fisheries, and their crucial importance to the region's environment and the people who depend on salmon for survival. Greg Syverson’s intimate photographs of fish and their aquatic habitat further illuminate the text.
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Stunning, Rich, and Vital February 12, 2008
This was an extraordinary book that shows the vital necessity of protecting this area from projects like Anglo-American's Pebble Mine, which could ruin the salmon fishery at the heart of the ecosystem.
From high up February 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Much of the photos in this book are taken from fairly high up, helicopter or aircraft. Composition is better than anything in the genre. Medium format Pentax 645 ensures a high level of detail. Printing quality is among the best i've seen. This is not just another book on the beauty of Alaskan wilderness. Interesting text for those with little background on salmon and their rivers.
A masterpiece!
Rivers of Life: Spectacular photography. Poignant history. July 30, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Rivers of Life has stunningly beautiful photography of the rivers and fish of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Although I have been there several times, Ketchum and Hampton's book reveals so much more about this remote region than a visitor would typically see or learn. It also documents the poignant inside story of the history of this, the world's greatest wild salmon fishery, and the century-long struggle among the natives, commercial fishermen, sport-fishermen, and government to conserve the resource and use it wisely.
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