Oceanic Wilderness

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 340 pages
• Published by: Firefly Books September 14, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1552979997
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1552979990
• Book Dimensions: 12.8 x 11 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 6.6 pounds

From Publishers Weekly
This new book from Steene, a master of underwater photography, provides a detailed tour of the marine environments of the Caribbean, the Western Pacific and the Austral-Indonesian archipelago he's been exploring for forty years with marine scientists like Gerald Allen (with whom Steene collaborated on several field guides). The colors of these underwater habitats alone are mind boggling; add an enormous cast of corals, sponges, anemones, fish and many other creatures—including some so newly discovered they haven't been named or described—and the material could become truly disorienting. Fortunately, the brief introductory text provides specific insights into the habitats included, and photo captions indicate size, location and even lens and lighting info (though a glossary of terms would have been helpful). More than 300 pages of spectacular color photos, including a vast range of species and behaviors (like mating frogfish and cuttlefish), examples of camouflage and mimicry (like a Mimic Octopus impersonating 14 different sea species, from a seasnake to a jellyfish), and amazing color variations (more than a dozen brightly patterned flatworms), make this book hard to put down. Like visions of another world, these photographs have a magical quality that should delight anyone with an interest in animals, the sea or photography in general. (Sept.)
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Product Review
A volume that embraces the majestic and [the] minute in like measure. (Bill Thompson The Post and Courier (Charleston SC) 20071209)

This book could just as easily have been entitled Pictures from Paradise. (Laszlo Buhasz Globe and Mail 20070825)

Perhaps one of the most remarkably gorgeous books of the year. (Ottawa Citizen 20070902)

Colors are almost outrageously stunning demystifies the planet's darkest frontier, revealing exquisite beauty. (SirReadaLot.org 20070802)

The range of colour, hue, and design of each creature and plant is unbelievable. Oceanic Wilderness will not disappoint you. (Elaine Rankin Canadian Camera 200712)

Mind boggling spectacular color photographs and amazing color variations, make this book hard to put down. (Publishers Weekly 20070820)

awesome color photographs reveal the breathtaking beauty of life beneath the oceans. an great gift. (Wildlife Activist 200709)

Truly breathtaking This is a book to place near a comfortable chair to be explored and savored over time. (Diana Mumford Wavelength 20080301)

Talk about scary underwater creatures. (The Province (Vancouver) )

Underwater scenes few of us have the resources, skill, or patience to behold, rendered with a startling sharpness and brilliance. (Laurence A. Marschall Natural History )

Reader Reviews
This is a truly amazing book and Amazon offers it at a bargain price. This is a huge collection of superb photos of a diversity of ocean life. Anyone who is interested in oceans will love this book.