Mary Meagher
Auteur de Yellowstone and the Biology of Time: Photographs Across a Century
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 19
- Popularité
- #609,294
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
Now, I’ll be honest – I really bought it for the pictures of the thermal areas, and there are a few. Interesting, even these have not changed as much as one might suspect. (And I suspect that the changes shown for Mammoth Hot Springs are the result more of different camera angles than actual changes. Though, I am not an expert and it is unfair of me to make this judgment, and I have to assume they knew what they were doing when they put the photos together. But, I wonder….) And, as I noted above, this will be an interesting book to those who have an interest in Yellowstone. (For me, just because of my personal interests, the photo showing the Fountain Hotel in amongst the geysers of the Lower Geyser Basin was almost worth the price of admission itself.)
The writing included here (essays on geology, climate, biology, grazing dynamics, and human presence) is fine, and explore the subjects appropriately for the length of the articles and the real purpose of the book. But that real purpose is the pictures. And, while they are nice, and while the comparative studies completed with them are nice, it all adds up to, only, a nice book.… (plus d'informations)