Hostile Beauty: Life on Macquarie Island

By Alistair Dermer and Danielle Wood

There are few places today that are truly wild.
Macquarie Island is still one such place--a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life.
Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants: gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522855040
• ISBN13: 9780522855043
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.2"