Wildland
A JOURNEY TO THE EARTH’S LAST WILDS
Four years. Seven continents.
This is a wildlife book like no other, its images aching with what words struggle to describe: the resonance of wilderness in our inner being, the power of land to transform our emotion. A grand volume of 400 pages, with more than 200 striking images, photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford have created an epic, unparalleled portrait of some of the earth’s most untouched places.
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Wildland
Strives not just to slow the escalation of time, but to stop it – and, through art, it succeeds. A whopper of a book which causes the reader to stare agape, changed. It is a wanderer for our newly arrived species to gaze, with dull incomprehension, at such grace and power.
Wild Land is more rare, therefore more precious than anything we would take from it.
Peter and Beverly created a unique photographic style for their epic volume Wild Land. Stepping back from their subject, they made images of the vast scope of the wilderness, emphasising wild animals’ dependence on their environment. Wild Land evokes the resonance of wilderness in our inner being, the power of land to transform our emotion, and our ability to transcend the immediate and become sublime.
Travelling for four years to every continent on earth, the book shares a belief in the power of photography and the written word. A photograph and its related story has the capacity to reach hundreds of thousands of people, influencing the paradigm of their thinking. It is this belief – coupled with the conviction that real wilderness protection lies not in laws and official jurisdictions, but in the hearts of a nation’s people – that urged Peter and Beverly on their journey to bring Wild Land images and narratives to the world. The book delivers a timely message that highlights the need for these lands to be preserved for the future of the planet, a future on which humankind’s very survival is dependent.
To hold the book, is to journey, not only to the physical places that Peter and Beverly found in their exploration at the extremes of the earth, but also to experience humility and awe in places so wild they induce fear. It is to touch what J. W. N. Sullivan meant when he wrote:
At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.