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Title: Alligators
Condition: New
Subtitle: Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape
Author: Martha A. Strawn
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1938086236
EAN: 9781938086236
ISBN: 9781938086236
Publisher: George F. Thompson
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Description: For more than 65,000,000 years, the alligator has inhabited the North American continent. One of the few remaining links to the age of the dinosaur, these ancient reptiles move gracefully through the water but are relatively awkward on land (though they can charge aggressively if threatened). In so many ways, the alligator embodies all that is truly wild in the world. Renowned photographer Martha Strawn, the founder of "visual ecology," spent a decade traveling throughout the American South, from Texas to North Carolina, taking more than 40,000 unforgettable photographs of this incredible creature—not only in their natural habitat of swamps, lakes, and ponds, rivers, bayous, and estuaries, coastal marshes and backwaters, but also along the white sands of Florida's landscapes and highways of Louisiana's Cajun country, in citrus and avocado groves, and in new suburban and commercial developments that now encroach upon the natural order. The 151 photographs featured here are presented in a series of visual sequences, each based on a concept or feeling designed to inform and recreate a network of field experiences that are complemented by vignettes, poems, lyrics to songs, and engaging text. Here is a unique book that combines art and science, history and folklore, a land ethic and literature in order to tell the story of one of the South's most amazing and evocative creatures. Here are the wetlands and deep waters where alligators feed, bask in the sun, perform courtship dances, mate, nest, and watch over their young. Here is the story about resource management, hunting and the commercial meat and skin industries, and the increasing tension between this wild creature and the human beings they encounter on their ancient landscape. In addition to Strawn's incredible photographs and enlightened text are three guest essays that bring home the relationship between alligators and humans: "Memories of Gator Hunts," by legendary alligator hunter LeRoy Overstreet; "Living by the Wetlands," by Jane Gibbon, a respected conservation anthropologist; and "Living with Alligators," by the acclaimed ecologist J. Whitfield Gibbons. Their stories give voice to the many people—the alligator farmers and hunters, the meat and skin processors, the scientists and wildlife managers—who spend their days and nights with this noble member of the order Crocodilia and who work hard to understand and promote a mutually beneficial relationship between these two dominant species who now must learn to live together in our one living landscape. I ran as fast as I could toward the banana trees with the gator right behind me, gaining on me with every step. Her jaws popping together sounded like a door slamming. I reached the first banana tree just ahead of the gator and climbed right up to it like it had stairs . . . I had climbed up about ten or twelve feet, and I was slipping back down, so I made a desperate effort and managed to get my hands into the base of the leaves. Just as I thought I might be safe, the tree started falling over. - LeRoy Overstreet
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 280mm
Item Length: 216mm
Release Year: 2013

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • Publication Name: Alligators
  • Title: Alligators
  • Subtitle: Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape
  • ISBN-10: 1938086236
  • EAN: 9781938086236
  • ISBN: 9781938086236
  • Genre: Arts & Photography
  • Release Date: 01/12/2013
  • Release Year: 2013
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: US
  • Item Length: 216mm
  • UPC: 9781938086236
  • Publication Year: 2013
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Alligators: Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape
  • Item Height: 280mm
  • Author: Martha A. Strawn
  • Publisher: George F. Thompson
  • Item Width: 216mm
  • Number of Pages: 228 Pages

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