Galapagos: A Traveler’s Introduction
In 1979, the Galapagos Islands was one of the earliest World Heritage Sites to be selected by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), a designation intended to protect and preserve sites of cultural and natural heritage around the world. Today, there are over a thousand World Heritage Sites and the Galapagos Islands are one of the most widely valued.
The biology of the Galapagos Islands has arguably been studied more than any other archipelago in the world. Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands for five weeks in 1835 and then spent the next several decades at his home in England conducting experiments on a multitude of non-Galapagos species to confirm his theory of natural selection. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, one of the most important ideas in all of science.
The islands are located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 605 miles (973 km) off the west coast of South America and consist of 13 main islands and 6 smaller islands. Only some are open to visitors.
In this richly illustrated tour of the Galapagos, world renowned photographer and naturalist Wayne Lynch captures the unique wildlife living here, including the Galapagos tortoise, the marine iguana, the flightless cormorant, the blue-footed boobie and the magnificent frigatebird.
BIO:
In 1979, at the age of 31, Dr. Wayne Lynch left a career in emergency medicine to work full-time as a science writer and photographer. Today, he is one of Canada’s best-known and most widely published professional wildlife photographers. He is the author of Penguins of the World. He and his wife Aubrey live in Alberta, Canada.
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OLD HOMES OF QUEBEC
VOLUME 2
Old Homes of Quebec volume 2 , contains more than 365 vibrant colour photos which once again, showcase many more magnificent old fieldstone, wood plank and roughcast cladded pièce sur pièce homes, built for the most part in the 1700s and 1800s. There is even a house where the initial construction dates back to around the year 1650. The rich detailed and inspiring images accompanied with descriptions by the author, an award-winning professional photographer, will once more transport you back in time to discover the soothing and unique atmosphere old houses convey.
BIO:
Born in Montreal, PERRY MASTROVITO is an award-winning professional photographer since more than 35 years and resides in Laval, Quebec. Inspired since his youth by the natural and built environments, Perry pursued his photographic passion by studying graphic arts, printing and commercial photography before starting his career.
Perry specializes in photographing Quebec’s residential architecture, private gardens and landscapes. He also enjoys exploring other subjects, and creates in his studio and in various regions of the world (37 countries to date), conceptual and editorial stock images which are represented by several North American and European stock photo agencies.
His photos are regularly published in large format calendars, and have appeared in numerous print and online magazine and newspaper publications that include Canadian Gardening, Harrowsmith, Montreal Gazette ( Homefront section), Early Homes, Cabin Living, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest.com, National Geographic, etc . Many of his photos can be ordered online as custom framed prints, posters and pre-pasted wallpaper murals.
Perry is also the author of five other coffee-table books: Images du Québec, Old Homes of Quebec, Quebec’s Cities and Regions, Private Gardens of Quebec , and Log Homes of Quebec .
For more information about the author, visit his website at www.perrymastrovito.com. To propose your home or garden for his publishing projects, send an email to pmastro@look.ca.
