STEVEN KAZLOWSKI earned a degree in marine biology from Towson
State University in Baltimore before setting out for Alaska twelve
years ago to pursue his true passion: wildlife photography. His
photos have been featured in Vanity Fair, Time, National Wildlife,
Audubon, Backpacking, and Canadian National Geographic magazines,
and he has self-published two books: Bears of the North and Alaska
Wildlife Impressions. He spent over eight years photographing for
The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World (Braided
River, 2008). As a result of his work on that conservation title,
he received the Sierra Club's 2008 Ansel Adams Award. Kazlowski is
known within the photography community for his skills of
observation and his determination to capture an image even in
extreme weather conditions.
For more information and photographs, visit his website:
www.lefteyepro.com.
"[The Last Polar Bear] is the culmination of Kazlowski's driving
obsession with the polar bears of northern Alaska. Sometimes
obsessions end badly; this one has resulted in a stunning
book."--Mary Ann Gwinn "Seattle Times "
"By revealing the immediate impact of climate change-what's
happening now, instead of what may theoretically happen-on polar
bears, the Inupiaq, and other Arctic inhabitants, Steven Kazlowski
and the writers included in The Last Polar Bear have produced an
enduring lesson plan on how to recognize and help cure the earth's
fever. The clearest message a reader will gain from this book?
Despair is not an option. Only through hope will we change the
world."--Andi Diehn "Foreword Magazine "
"Kazlowski's photos are superb-elegant, breathtaking,
magnificent-all the hyperbole not used in the text can be attached
to the pictures. They are stunning visual compositions that show
the Arctic in all its savage, raw, beautiful wonder. The bears
pictured here are not stuffed toys or marketing creations. They are
Nature's creatures, playful and loving at times, savage and wild at
others. If ever a cause had a face, it would be this."--Libbie
Martin "(Fairbanks, AK) Daily News Minor "
"The accompanying essays [in The Last Polar Bear] are short of
preaching and conjecture, long on fact and science [and]...this
book is filled with facts that will intrigue the thinking
reader...[in short, ] Kazlowski's book is worth reading. The essays
are thoughtful and well written, with facts laid out and arguments
presented logically and objectively. The message is clear, but the
messengers understand that beating us to death with rhetoric and
hyperbole might not be the best way to go about things."--Libbie
Martin "(Fairbanks, AK) Daily News Minor "
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