The Wild Pacific Coast

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THE WtLD
PACIFIC
COAST
The Pacific coastline of North America is remarkable for its wild, natural wonders and for the diversity of landscape, wildlife and climate that can be found along its shore — fromBaja, California, where the cacti grow close to the sea in a near desert environment, to Alaska, where one of the wettest climates on earth feeds great glaciers that reach down to the sea. In between grow somé of the most majestic forests in existence, dense forests of two-hundred-foot cedar, hemlock, Douglas fir and the tallest trees in the world, the California redwoods. Here, too, are the inland passages, sheltered islands and the deep fjords of British Columbia and Alaska.
Janis Kraulis and other photographers, including Fred Bruemmer, Tim Fitzharris and Ron Watts, have captured the natural splendor of such locations as Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, the Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, Cape Scott, Pacific Rim National Park, the Gulf Islands, the San Jüan... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE WtLD
PACIFIC
COAST
The Pacific coastline of North America is remarkable for its wild, natural wonders and for the diversity of landscape, wildlife and climate that can be found along its shore — fromBaja, California, where the cacti grow close to the sea in a near desert environment, to Alaska, where one of the wettest climates on earth feeds great glaciers that reach down to the sea. In between grow somé of the most majestic forests in existence, dense forests of two-hundred-foot cedar, hemlock, Douglas fir and the tallest trees in the world, the California redwoods. Here, too, are the inland passages, sheltered islands and the deep fjords of British Columbia and Alaska.
Janis Kraulis and other photographers, including Fred Bruemmer, Tim Fitzharris and Ron Watts, have captured the natural splendor of such locations as Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, the Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, Cape Scott, Pacific Rim National Park, the Gulf Islands, the San Jüan Islands and Washingtont Olympic National Park.
Kraulis' insightful and informative text explains the forces and influences of the sea, relates the geographical history of this fantastic landscape and reveals the vastness and variety of plánt and animal life that are at home in the unusual and diverse environment of the wild pacific coast.
Janis Kraulis has published several books in Canada and Europe. These titles include Alpine Canada, Canada from the Air, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbiai A Celebration and Mountains of Canada. His contribution to such magazines as Audubon, Kanata, Nature Canada, Modern Photography and Equinox has been extensive. His work is among the collections of numerous major North American corporations and among his many gallery showings is a fifty-print travelling exhibition in Japan.
Born in 1949 to Latvian parents and raised in Montreal, he holds degrees in science and in architecture from McGill University, but is entirely self-taught in photography. He has a keen interest in wilderness and has hiked, climbed and skied throughout the mountains of North America. With his wife Linda he resides in Toronto between frequent travels. Vissza