To the Top of the World: Adventures With Arctic Wolves

Brandenburg, Jim; Guernsey, Joann Bren

ISBN 10: 0802782205 ISBN 13: 9780802782205

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1993

Synopsis

A wildlife photographer chronicles the summer he spent with an Arctic wolf pack on Ellesmere Island, an isolated island near the Arctic Circle, and he pays tribute to the legendary Arctic white wolf.

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 & Co
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0802782205
• ISBN 13: 9780802782205
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 44