This large handbound book complete with dust jacket is a refreshing new entry to the market flooded with cheap paperbacks & the surprises don’t end there.
Open Robert Baldwin’ book & you will be treated to page after page of stunning, mostly underwater photography. The book is driven by visual illustration, with words kept to the minimum. Most pages in this bilingual book just have a couple of paragraphs, one in English & other in Arabic. A paragraph for every couple of pages will take you through he natural inhabitants of one of the richest marine regions in the world.
This also means that the richest marine regions in the world. This also means that the books reaches out across ages, from children who will only look at the photos to adults who will appreciate large photos.
Robert first came to the region in 1988 and had since spent most of his working life here. Specializing in marine studies.
the book ends introduction with a para that sums up the portfolio, photographs concentrate on the beauty, marvel & wonder of nature, rather than the dying & devastated. It therefore aims us to remind what we have to lose, not what we are losing or have lost from mangrove forest to seagrass beds to Baleen whales, this book has it all.
Add to that impeccable publishing & production quality & you have something that will live on it in your library for years to come.