Product Details Hardcover 264 pages Images of Nature Published 1997 From Booklist Mangelsen is a well-known nature photographer, and in Polar Dance, he has produced what is probably the definitive collection of images of polar bears. These "ice bears" spend most of their lives in a land of snow and ice (the polar summer lasts mere weeks), and Mangelsen's evocative photos of white bears covered in snow, lying spread-eagled on pack ice, or swimming among ice floes give the reader a sense of this harsh habitat. Bruemmer's text is a factual account of arctic ecology and the niche... read more |