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The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest
Authors: Robert Glenn Ketchum, Carey D. Ketchum
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2064654

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 12.3 x 0.7

ISBN: 0893812668
EAN: 9780893812669
ASIN: 0893812668

Publication Date: December 1989
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Condition: Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy!

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Essy by Bruce Hampton.

The renowned landscape photographer addresses conservation issues in Alaska.

Covering an area larger than the state of Washington, southwest Alaska is a vast watershed that drains from the summits and uplands of the Alaska and Aleutian mountain ranges, west to Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea.

Working with the support of numerous national foundations, Native corporations and villages, and all the state and federal offices that manage these lands, Robert Glenn Ketchum has brought his rich vision of the landscape and his history of pro-active work to bear on behalf of conservation of the freshwater habitat in the Bristol Bay watershed. His vibrant, encompassing photographs reveal a destination with which few of us are familiar, but one that has a stunning beauty and scale.

The centennial edition of Audubon named Ketchum one of the one hundred champions of conservation "who shaped the environmental movement of the twentieth century." His prints can be found in most of the major museum collections in the United States, and he is exhibited internationally.


Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars 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.


5 out of 5 stars 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!



5 out of 5 stars 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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