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By Camille Seaman

ISBN-10: 1616893818

ISBN-13: 9781616893811

For ten years Camille Seaman has documented the speedily altering landscapes of Earth's polar areas. As an excursion photographer aboard small ships within the Arctic and Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating results of worldwide warming at the jagged face of approximately fifty thousand icebergs. Seaman's targeted viewpoint of the panorama is entwined together with her local American upbringing: she sees no icebergs as alike; every one responds to its surroundings uniquely, virtually as though they have been dwelling beings. via Seaman's lens, every one towering bite of ice—breathtakingly attractive in layers of smoky grey and turquoise blue—takes on a special character, giving her paintings the texture of majestic portraiture. Melting Away collects seventy-five of Seaman's such a lot appealing photos, lifeaffirming pictures that display not just what now we have already misplaced, yet extra importantly what we nonetheless have that's worthy battling to avoid wasting.

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