Priceless
€22.99
The Vanishing Beauty of
a Fragile Planet
Bradley Trevor Greive, Mitsuaki
Iwago (Ill)
Mitsuaki Iwago`s gorgeous photographs
of adorable endangered animals accompanied by Bradley Trevor
Greive`s impassioned plea for environmental consciousness
and sprinkled with facts and figures on humans` steady corruption
of the earth in Priceless.
There may be no more effective argument
against environmental devastation than gorgeous photographs
of adorable endangered animals-and this book is packed with
them, accompanied by heartfelt entreaties about the looming
extinction of dozens of species.
Australian author Bradley Trevor Greive
writes an impassioned plea for environmental consciousness
that glides between poetic (`you are the whole world, not
just the space inside your clothes`) and matter-of-fact (`It
seems clear that our species is destined to be the cause of
the sixth extinction`). The accompanying pictures by wildlife
photographer Mitsuaki Iwago are captivating snapshots of disappearing
animal worlds: a lion cub resting at sunset on the savanna,
an elephant advancing across a plain while hundreds of white
birds fly up before him.
Greive and Iwago explore the interconnectedness
and similarity of all life, but carefully avoid assigning
human characteristics to the animals. And humans will reap
what they sow, Grieve warns: `Only now are we learning that
just as we made life unbearable of the many delicate species
we have lost, so too we are slowly but surely making this
planet unsuitable to sustain even our own existence.` Grieve`s
simple, spare prose, which rarely measures more than a sentence
or two per page, is sprinkled with facts and figures on humans`
steady corruption of the earth.
No reader will close the book unmoved
by the beautiful, funny, and strange creatures in its pages.
Amplifying this poignant call for action, Greive is donating
all author proceeds from book sales to the Taronga Foundation,
a wildlife conservation charity.
160pp 2004 Hbk 254x241 |
