Description

Polar Tales tells a story about an ice world in transformation, and a planet within reach of its tipping point – the irreversible moment when the climate on planet Earth begins collapsing.

This book is both a celebration of the wildlife that inhabits this harsh and most unforgiving and beautiful environment imaginable – mountains, fjords, enormous glaciers, and the seemingly endless pack ice of the Arctic Ocean – and a cautionary tale of global warming. Rising temperatures have put areas such as the Arctic at risk, and the habitats – and lives – of the animals there are increasingly threatened. Set against a dramatic landscape of ice floes and ragged mountains, readers will see polar bears, foxes, seals, walruses, and reindeer that now struggle to live in this vulnerable climate. Images of a polar bear mother as she takes her newborns out for their first hunt, a seal pup only hours old, and the spectacle of the polar night, are reminders of what is at risk. The authors work like no other photographers: alone on the ice with the most dangerous predator on Earth. Spending months in the field every winter on their expeditions, they live among the polar bears, establishing an uneasy balance and unprecedented access to the world of the kings of the Arctic.