Alaska's Wildlife [Hardcover]

Tom Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1995

In this incredible collection, Alaska's premier wildlife photographer presents the state's well-known wildlife along with its more unusual species. Walker has waited with endless patience to capture that which is rarely photographed.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Dramatic photos of Alaskan wildlife are featured in a photo essay title which gathers the author's fine candid shots of rare animals in the wild; from bull caribou swimming to otters cracking open mollusks. These excellent color close-ups are given full-page royal treatment here. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Walker created all the images for Alaska's Bears, Alaska's Mammals, Alaska's Wildlife, Wild Critters, and More Wild Critters.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 142 pages
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Books (May 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558682015
• ISBN-13: 978-1558682016
• Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 10.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,532,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tom Walker, the author of over a dozen books centered on Alaska, has lived in Alaska for almost 45-years. "Alaska has been the greatest gift of my life and I would live nowhere else." He has been a wildlife conservation officer, wilderness guide, loghome builder (shoulder surgery prempted that career), wildlife and nature photographer, and freelance writer. In his early years, "before the anesthesia of youth wore off," he followed the rodeo circuit, after a stint as a horse packer in the eastern High Sierras in his natal state of California. Like many others, the military took him to Alaska, where he mustered out and sank roots. Walker now lives in a log house on the very edge of Denali National Park, and despite the sometimes extreme winter weather - down to -50f in winter - he finds the rural life fulfilling. "If it weren't for the long, dark and cold winter, I probably would not be a writer because I would always be out somewhere in the woods or on the tundra." He has won awards for both his photography and his volunteer work with Alaska wildlife issues. His two volume history of McKinley Park (1902-1930 era), now renamed Denali National Park, took almost 30 years to complete the interviews, research, and multiple rewrites. "A labor of love, I guess, but I wonder if I would have continued had I known what I was getting into at the outset. The fabulous, truelife stories uncovered, worthy of Robert Service and Jack London, kept me going."

Customer Reviews

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alaska's Wildlife, October 16, 2005

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Bea Challstrom "Honey Bea" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alaska's Wildlife (Hardcover)

My husband and I saw the book in a Safeway store in Homer, AK in September but didn't buy it then as it was expensive and we were running out of room to bring things home. I ordered it for my husband, then gave it to our adult son for his birthday and he liked it as well as we did. So I've ordered another one for my husband.