A Wild Life

Michael 'Nick' Nichols has for decades created powerful and eloquent images of iconic wildlife species. His vision is to stir the emotions of viewers leading to empathy and conservation. Melissa Harris has provided a sparkling text not just of Nick and his colleagues at work in the field, but one which provides many fascinating insights into the conservation issues related to his photographic quests. Among these are the survival of mountain gorillas during nearly six decades of civil war in their realm, the horrendous elephant slaughter for ivory, and the ethics of trophy hunting, of killing lions for pleasure. This is an illuminating and honest book about some of the world's greatest natural treasures and those who strive to protect them.-George B. Schaller, author of The Serengeti Lion and The Year of the Gorilla Nick and Melissa give us photography in concentrated form, brilliantly seized and wonderfully explained.-Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love and Flash of the Spirit