To the Top of the World: Adventures With Arctic Wolves - Softcover

Brandenburg, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802774628 ISBN 13: 9780802774620

Publisher: Walker Childrens, 1998

Synopsis

A wildlife photographer records in text and photographs two visits to Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, where he filmed a pack of Arctic wolves over several months.

About this title

About the Author:

Minnesota photographer, Jim Brandenburg, began his career as a natural history photographer and filmmaker while majoring in studio art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He went on to become Picture Editor at the Worthington Daily Globe in southern Minnesota. While at the Daily Globe, Brandenburg began freelancing for National Geographic.

From Booklist:

Gr. 5-7. A truly compelling chronicle of a wildlife photographer's experience living close to an Arctic wolf pack. Author-photographer Brandenburg, known for his work for National Geographic as well as other magazines, and twice named magazine photographer of the year by the National Press Photographer's Association, feels "adopted" by the pack living on remote Ellesmere Island, where the wolves have probably not had previous contact with humans and, therefore, are not afraid of them. Brandenburg comes to know the pack members and their special characteristics as well as the necessary hierarchy that defines each member's place in the pack. Intimate photos of pups playing, adults engorging themselves on a fresh kill, and the pack having a howling songfest are just a few of the moments captured in astonishing color photographs. Brandenburg's respect and awe are apparent in every paragraph of text, and his gentle reminders of our misplaced fear of wolves are well taken. This suberb photo-essay will make it difficult to think of wolves in the same way again. Denia Hester

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Childrens
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0802774628
• ISBN 13: 9780802774620
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Guernsey JoAnn B.