Frans Lanting: Bay of Life

Discover the wonders of one of nature's crown jewels: California's Monterey Bay - according to The Nature Conservancy, the hotspot for biodiversity in North America. This is a place of giants, from redwood forests on land to forests of kelp at sea. Monterey Bay is home to iconic animals, from delicate monarch butterflies to soaring California condors and from secretive mountain lions to majestic blue whales. They all survive in a region where cosmopolitan migrants mix with rare local species.

The natural abundance of Monterey Bay is the result of a unique confluence of land and sea, shaped by the forces of fog and fire and influenced by human activity. After the gold rush, massive overexploitation of resources stripped the land of trees and the seas of fish and marine mammals. But that ecological collapse has been reversed in our time. Photographer Frans Lanting's nature photography book "Bay of Life" describes a remarkable recovery that shows that damaged ecosystems can be restored when people care and work together. That offers a model for other places at a time when we need such stories of hope.

Specifications
Title: Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales
Author: Frans Lanting
Publisher: Insight Editions
Size: 276 x 301 x 28 mm
Size: 240 pages
Weight: 2600 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781647221430

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