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Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Product Bundle – May 1, 2006

by Stephen Brown PH.D. (Editor), Subhankar Banerjee (Photographer), Steven Kazlowski (Photographer),
4.7 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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This is a celebration in word and image of the birds who return each year to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to nest - and how they link every point on the globe. 200 colour photos from award-wining nature photographers, Subhankar Banerjee, Steven Kazlowski and Arthur Morris are included. Essays by noted writers, biologists and conservationists, including David Allen Sibley, Debble Miller and former US president Jimmy Carter are provided. It offers life histories of individual bird species from every major group, including shorebirds, songbirds and raptors plus dramatic stories of migration and strategies for survival. It also includes an audio CD of Arctic bird songs.
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    192 pages
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    Mountaineers Books
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    May 1, 2006
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    11.06 x 0.72 x 11 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0898869765
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    978-0898869767
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"A stunningly beautiful nature photography book." -- Wisconsin Bookwatch

"Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a handsomely illustrated and unapologetically political volume " -- Appalachia Magazine

"Could be used for in-home notes about birding in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." -- Salem (OR) Statesman Journal

"The book makes clear the importance of the refuge to bird populations and the dire consequences of permitting oil exploration" -- Booklist

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mountaineers Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2006
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0898869765
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0898869767
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.06 x 0.72 x 11 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #3,850,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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Debbie S. Miller grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. She loved climbing trees, watching animals, and hiking in wild places such as Yosemite National Park. The natural world inspired her to write at a young age. After obtaining her teaching degree, Debbie moved to Alaska with her husband, Dennis. The call of the wild beckoned them from the freeways of California. Debbie enjoyed teaching in Arctic Village, one of the most isolated Gwich'in communities on the south side of the magnificent Brooks Range.

For the past 45 years, Debbie has loved exploring the wilds of Alaska and studying its great diversity of wildlife. Alaska has been the foundation and inspiration for all of her writing. Her first wilderness adventure book, Midnight Wilderness (Sierra Club Books, 1990) describes the wonders and natural history of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge based on 14 years of explorations. Many of her many nature books for children, such as Survival at 40 Below (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2010) and Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2003) have been recognized as Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book Council (NSTA/CBC).

Debbie enjoys speaking in schools across Alaska and America, sharing her nonfiction books and programs with teachers and students of all ages. She loves working with teachers and inspiring students to explore the natural world and write their own stories. She has visited schools in 24 states. Debbie also likes traveling to other wild regions of the world, such as Australia, where she recently studied some fascinating marsupials, reptiles, and birds described in her desert book, Survival at 120 Above.

For her most recent adult book, A Wild Promise (Braided River, 2018) Debbie spent five summers exploring the spectacular world of Prince William Sound which has the largest concentration of tidewater glaciers in North America. "It was truly a joy to work on this project with photographer Hugh Rose."

Alaska will always be a home that Debbie cherishes along with her two grown, beautiful daughters who still enjoy hiking, fishing and camping with her. She currently lives in Sitka, Alaska, where she can see the spouts of humpback whales out the living room window, and bears and deer wandering through the berry bushes.

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  • Mary Margaret Gallagher
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Delight
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2014
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    I would highly recommend this book to anyone. Through words, photographs, maps and recorded sounds this book brings the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into your hands. Birds that spend their whole lives there and birds that visit from six continents. It is a visual and auditory delight. I advise playing the CD and looking at the photographs first. Begin reading wherever you like, each essay is a story in itself.
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  • K. Shimata
    5.0 out of 5 stars Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2006
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    If you love: a)nature photography, b)the Arctic, and c)birds - this book is for you. It is over-sized and filled with beautiful colored photographs of birds who come to breed in the Arctic. Plus, there are migration maps and essays telling you how the birds got to the Arctic. And there is a CD with sounds of the Arctic and many of the birds pictured in the book. It is a wonderful feast for the senses.
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  • GR
    5.0 out of 5 stars great book picturing the arctic
    Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2013
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    This a great book with interesting stories by great authors and amazing images. The image quality is not quite up to date in comparison with more recent publications.
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  • K.Jayaram
    3.0 out of 5 stars Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014
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    Though this books contains an enormous amount of details on the Arctic refuge, but not much of bird images! But still a very good book with lots of information and some unusual images of the cold arctic. Those who can't afford to go to the arctic, this is the book one should pocess.
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  • K & D
    5.0 out of 5 stars Owls 04
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2013
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    My firends have really enjoyed this book and the CD that came with it. I have this as well and it is an outstanding book and audio CD. If you love birds and the arctic, then this should be on your shelf. Thanks Amazon.
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  • Scott M. Kruse
    5.0 out of 5 stars Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2006
    Pacific, Central, Mississippi and Atlantic North American Flyways converge on the North Slope of Alaska and Yukon Territory. The area encompasses many ecosystems - river deltas and coastal wetlands, tundra, mountains, boreal forest; inshore waters, barrier islands, beaches and spits and coastal lagoons. Diverse and complex spread over 7.89 million square hectometers (19.5 million ac). The North Slope is a soundshed, viewshed, and the temporary annual residence for at least 194 birds - who visit, but not stay. Some fly almost 29,000 kilometers (18,000 mi), each year, for the round trip. The area is also home to moose, caribou, wolverines, arctic fox, bears and wolves.

    US automobile companies and related industries have effectively been on welfare for most of the 20th and the 21st centuries - dependent on "cheap" oil. Perverse subsidies that function as disinvestments threaten to leave the arctic environment and US economy worse off. As pointed out by Hawken, Lovins and Lovins (1999) in Natural Capitalism and von Weizsacker, Lovins and Lovins (1997) in Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, if you want to cut your costs by one-half or double your profit, then double your efficiency. The North Slope sustainably functions best as wilderness.

    Rather than getting close to the Arctic tundra by "sitting behind an internal combustion engine pick up truck in midtown traffic," this is about minimizing human impact on the North Slope by becoming better informed about some of the wild visitors. A CD provides from a few seconds up to 14 minutes (60 minutes of continual play) of the sounds of 67 different birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The large 28 x 28 cm format helps bring the North Slope alive, everything but cool wind in your face and crisp smells wafting off the tundra.

    After the introduction, the book is organized according to Loons and Waterfowl; Hawks, Eagles and Falcons; Shorebirds; Gulls, Terns and Jaegers; Owls; Land Birds and Winter Birds. President Jimmy Carter provides the Foreward. Multiple authors and photographers provide Cultural Reflections, Landscape of the Future, After an Arctic Season and Birders in the Scope.

    Recognizing there is a direct connection between local birds throughout North America and the North Slope, this reinforces the need for efficiency and use of renewable energy, and brings you one giant step closer to an "aha" moment.
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  • Harold McFarland
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully done, very interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2006
    Absolutely beautifully done with brilliant colors and well-composed pictures this is a great joy to just look through for all bird lovers or fans of the Arctic Refuge area. But it does not stop there. The writers share their experiences in an excellent educational yet highly readable treatise on their particular subject. Together they introduce the fascinating world of Arctic birds to the reader in a way that is both informative and fun. So, how to you finish off such an excellent book? They added a CD in the back with various bird calls, songs, and peeps. Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is highly recommended and a real joy to have around even just for the pleasure of picking it up once in a while and enjoying the pictures.
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  • John Matlock
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Book that Covers a Place that May Not be here long.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2006
    This beautifully illustrated book is written by a collection of authors who have a love affair going with the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Their writing, each on a different subject is filled with amazement, wonder and love for the area and its birdlife.

    On the other side is a whole series of comments about protecting this environment and the thrust for development being urged by the oil companies and the Bush administration. Unfortunately, in the long run, I think that the environmentalists will lose. The 'God given rights' of the people to have inexpensive gasoline for their SUV's leads to power by the voting booth.

    The book itself is of large format, printed on a very heavy paper with a printing quality that rivals photographs themselves. It is a beautiful book. There is also a CD included with the book that has recordings of 67 bird boices. This can be played as a single 60 minute recording, or you can select individual tracks of bird species.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2017
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