Glacier Bay: The Wild Beauty of Glacier Bay National Park

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This beautiful and informative book offers an intimate look at a major cruise ship destination and probably the most top-ranked parks in the country–Glacier Bay National Park.

Glacier Bay National Park is likely one of the hottest destinations in Alaska. And now, visitors will have the ideal keepsake in Glacier Baya dazzling collection of images by the countrys premier flora and fauna photography team. Erwin and Peggy Bauer have spent hundreds of hours in the field photographing the parks famous glaciers and ice, marine flora and fauna, and lush rainforests. An accompanying essay describes the parks creation, natural history, and recreation potential, making Glacier Bay a wonderful introduction to one of Americas most visited parks.
Located 45 miles from Juneau, Alaska, Glacier Bay National Park encompasses more than 3.3 million acres of wilderness land. Dominated by sheer 15,000-foot mountains, carved by swift rivers, and served by a single paved road, the park is remote and difficult to get entry to–unless you’re probably the most 360,000-ordinary visitors who arrive there by cruise ship, touring the park’s hundred-mile-long coast.

Noted flora and fauna photographers and prolific authors Erwin and Peggy Bauer go far beyond the docks in this portfolio and guidebook, which captures the place in several seasons and moods. Among their subjects are the park’s landforms (including glaciers and mountains), its abundant and varied bird life, and indigenous mammals such as mountain goats, wolverines, sea lions, seals, killer whales, otters, and, as the authors cheerfully statement, “bears, bears, bears.” Students of nature photography will find much to be informed from in these pages, and visitors planning a commute by whatever conveyance into the area will get a good sense of what awaits them, in addition to a fine keepsake volume. –Gregory McNamee

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