eBook - ePub
About this book
Photographer and conservationist Bryant Austin's breathtaking photographic project Beautiful Whale is the first of its kind: It chronicles his fearless attempts to reach out to whales as fellow sentient beings. Featuring Austin's intimate images-some as detailed as a single haunting eye-that result from encounters based on mutual trust, Beautiful Whale captures the grace and intelligence of these magnificent creatures. Austin spent days at a time submerged, motionless, in the waters of remote spawning grounds waiting for humpback, sperm, and minke whales to seek him out. As oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle says in her foreword to the book, "e;As an ambassador from the ocean-and to the ocean-Bryant Austin is not only a source of inspiration. He is cause for hope.?Praise for Beautiful Whale: "e;You can't help thinking, with every passing page, that this is what's it's like to swim with the whales. -The Wall Street Journal
Frequently asked questions
Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
- Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
- Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Beautiful Whale by in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Photography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
Information
Abrams, New York
BEAUTIFUL
WHALE
BRYANT AUSTIN
Foreword by
SYLVIA A. EARLE
CONTENTS
6
FOREWORD
by Sylvia A. Earle
10
INTRODUCTION
CORDUROY
14
CHAPTER 1
HUMPBACK WHALES, THE KINGDOM OF TONGA
48
CHAPTER 2
SPERM WHALES, DOMINICA, WEST INDIES
88
CHAPTER 3
MINKE WHALES, GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA
118
EPILOGUE
6
M
any have used their talents to portray whales
in bronze, ivory, stone, wood, and glass; with
oils, acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, and ink.
Magnificent photographs document and inspire
insight into the nature of the ten or so kinds of
great whales and their smaller whale and dolphin cousins.
But Bryant Austin is the only one ever to bring full life-size
portraits of individual whales at home in their aquatic realm to the
dry places where most people live. He enables those who will never
put their face in an ocean—as well as those who do—to see whales
as whales see whales, inch for inch, eye to eye, in such exquisite
detail that even the barnacles that cling to the whales’ skin can be
identified as one-of-a-kind entities.
Achieving such images is not a straightforward endeavor,
as Austin relates in this personal saga of man and whales, a riveting
narrative that began when a creature more than five hundred times
his size gently tapped him on the shoulder and met his eyes with
hers; two vertebrates, fellow mammals, suspended in time and
watery space.
All that follows began with the moment that Austin calls “the
calm, mindful gaze of a whale.”
“Mindful” is the key. Whales have much in common with
humans as wa...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Back Cover