Description: An astonishing journey through Earth's last paradise.
For centuries, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the oceans. While early exploration was fraught with danger and superstition, current technology allows us to see what the oceans hide at their deepest depths.
Oceanic Wilderness is an extraordinary illustrated voyage under the waves, revealing remarkable new and unusual life forms. Exploring destinations of the Caribbean, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific and Indian Oceans, this large-format book reveals: - The stunning beauty and color of the deep reef - Tropical islands and lagoons - Microscopic organisms inhabiting a drop of saltwater - Marine life in the tide pool - Spectacular environments in cold water and warm - The ocean during the day and through the night.
With more than 500 vivid color photographs and accurate descriptive text, Oceanic Wilderness demystifies Earth's darkest frontier, showing us its surprising secrets and exquisite beauty. This is an ideal book for naturalists, travelers, divers -- and anyone else with a passion for marine conservation and photography.
Review Summary: Most Amazing underwater photography EVER!
Date: 2008-09-19
Details: You just have to see it to believe it. It is the most amazing underwater photography I have ever seen. Fantastic!!! It's the perfect coffee table book for ocean lovers.
Review Summary: Amazing Oceanic Wilderness
Date: 2008-08-23
Details: Roger Steene's "Oceanic Wilderness" is a fantastic book because the photos are of such high quality. There are amazing photos of many kinds of shrimps, crabs, worms and other invertebrates. I liked it because is was NOT full of endles photos taken while the diver was lying on the bottom looking up at the surface and the passing schools of fish. There are a limited number of such photos that one can look at without becoming bored.
If you've never bought a coral reef book for your library, then you must buy this one - forget the rest this is the best!
Review Summary: Outstanding
Date: 2008-04-17
Details: This is an outstanding collection of underwater images, mostly macro images from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. The photographic quality of the images is excellent.
It is a fascinating book. Many of the images record extremely rare animals and unusual events: all kinds of mating; anemones capturing and eating starfish; lionfish hunting in packs; fish with strange jaws gaping; nudibranchs hunting each other, etc.
One of the really nice features of this book is the way it lays out 12 or 24 different variants of a theme juxtaposed together on a page: 24 different colour variations of the same nudibranch, or 12 variants of the beautiful patterns on the tails of mantis shrimp. These displays are beautiful and fascinating.
This is a wonderful gift for a scuba diver or for anyone with an interest in the underwater world. The experience is a lot like chatting with an experienced marine biologist and photographer in the bar after a good day's diving. I've done almost a thousand dives, but while reading Steene's book I kept gasping "I didn't even know that fish did that!"
Review Summary: amazing
Date: 2008-04-10
Details: great book. as a scuba diver you see lots of different and strange fish and other creatures.you dont even touch on what all this book shows.its really interesting to know that you might see one of these if you know where to look.the book is put together well and the colors are great.its a good conversation book.great for the coffee table.
Review Summary: Roger Steene - Extraordinary!
Date: 2008-02-12
Details: This iconic book features so many incredibly weird and beautiful creatures from Indonesia. Roger's ability to show incredible detail using 35mm film is truly astounding. Most of the marine animals included in this book will soon only exist on paper, sadly. Get out there and buy one!
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