Cover art for A Hostile Beauty
Published
Miegunyah Press, September 2011
ISBN
9780522855043
Format
Hardcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
29.3cm × 22cm × 2.3cm

A Hostile Beauty Life on Macquarie Island by

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In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.

There are few places today that are truly wild.

Macquarie Island is still one such place-a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.

Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants- gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth.

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