West Coast : Bering to Baja

There is no more beautiful or alluring coast in the world than the West Coast of North America: a 5,000-mile-long region that extends from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to Canada's British Columbia, south to Washington, Oregon, and California, and then to Baja California in Mexico. No photographer until David Freese has explored various landscapes along the Pacific Ocean in such depth, and thus we have in his book the first comprehensive look at what makes this particular coast so memorable in terms of its natural beauty. Behind the scenery, of course, lie the geologic forces that have created the West Coast landscapes that we now admire and praise. The engaging text by renowned author Simon Winchester grounds us in understanding the deep relationship between geology and scenery. And Naomi Rosenblum, the renowned photographic historian, writer, curator, and art critic, firmly establishes David Freese's place among the great landscape photographers of the past and present. In every photograph, his unique vision of nature and of place comes shining through. West Coast: Bering to Bajais a major publishing enterprise that will appeal to book-lovers of photography, nature, and those who dream about North America's West Coast. Here we see the vital connection between art and science merge in ways previously unseen in the publishing world for this special region of the world.