"This collection of Thomas Marent's images, 16 years in the making, brings alive the sheer and awe-inspiring beauty of the rainforest." Sting - founding patron, The Rainforest Foundation
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Introduction
Rainforest is the stunning result of half a lifetime’s work by Swiss photographer Thomas Marent. Inspired by a visit to the rainforest in Australia when he was 24, Marent has spent the ensuing 16 years exploring and photographing the world’s rainforests.
With all the immediacy of the best documentaries, Rainforest celebrates the fascinating behaviour and incredible variety of rainforest animals and plants – from resourceful leaf-cutter ants to the multi-hued clouds of butterflies and birds that flutter high in the tree tops. Incredibly, more is known about our universe than the millions of plant and animal species that teem inside these great hothouses of life. Rainforest takes you inside this mysterious realm, with breathtaking photographs and absorbing personal insight. Published in association with the Rainforest Foundation, who receive a donation for every copy sold. “Rainforests are the greatest treasure houses of natural riches on earth and I think it is tragic that we are losing them just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforest is my photographic journey through these astounding and fragile places.” Thomas Marent Visit www.dk.com/rainforest to see our Rainforest image gallery.Reviews
Customer Review:
Review by: Vikki, 05 May 2007
It is one of the most amazing collections of photographs I have ever seen.
Press reviews
'Marent's stunning photos should persuade even the worst gas guzzler that certain parts of the planet really should be saved.'
The Independent, Pick of the Picture Books, 1 September.
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then Thomas Marent’s photographs must be worth 3000 words each at least!
For the first time a book focuses on the world’s rainforests to reveal that they are as staggeringly beautiful and complex as a coral reef. These images cannot fail to invoke passion.
And as if that were not enough, we are given clear and concise information about the vital ecological forces behind our rainforests, and consequently feel inspired to protect them.
Dina Gallick, Supervisor of the Humid Tropics Biome at The Eden Project
"We dare you to pick up this book and not be enthralled for the next couple of hours." Sunday Times Travel Magazine
“Shows the natural beauty of the world's rainforest in all its glory” The Sun “The photographs are so impressive in their composition and lighting that it’s hard to accept that they weren’t taken in a studio.” WanderlustProduct details
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405315302
Size: 252 x 301mm
Number of pages: 360
Publication date: 07 Sep 2006
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
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