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ISBN 13 : 9781883789862
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)
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Download or read book Trunks of the Gunks written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studio photographer Nora Scarlett hiked for over ten years throughout the ¿Gunks¿¿the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State. ¿I looked for wacky formations, humorous characteristics, improbable locations, surprising shapes, and other wondrous growths. Such specimens occur frequently at the intersection of rock and root in this geologically unique area, the Shawangunk Mountains, a ridge extending from New Jersey to the Catskills. I became awed at scene after scene displaying how life adapts to adversity and how it succeeds in astonishing ways. Tiny seedlings emerge from small cracks in rock, sprouting a handful of needles or tender leaves, knowing only to keep trying to grow. Enormous hemlocks hang off ledges, improbably rooted to something, looking as if they shouldn¿t be upright, and yet ¿ there they are.¿ The result is "Trunks of the Gunks," featuring 100 amazing photographs of nature in its most whimsical and most tenacious moods.