Peter A. Dettling is an award-winning photographer whose passion for nature has taken him from the Galapagos Islands to Canada's Far North, and from the US Grand Canyon to the Swiss Alps. His images have been published in many international magazines and books and featured in gallery shows across North America and Europe, including the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
...an even-handed book that nonetheless leaves the reader shaking
with rage. That anger must be focused to become effective; it
begins, as Dettling points out, in our own passive hearts that
stand silently by as oil exploration, housing development and
transportation interests lobby local and provincial governments
into complicity against the ecological integrity of the wildlife
not only of Banff but of Alberta as a whole. Only in June 2010, for
example, did the provincial government belatedly list Alberta's
grizzly bears as threatened--a population that may already be
doomed. Dettling's story is a microcosm of that blindness. This
beautiful, compelling book should make you mad as hell.--Doug
Peacock, author of Grizzly Years, Walking It Off and The Essential
Grizzly-- (10/01/2012)
Peter Dettling takes the best damn pics of the Other creatures of
anyone I know on our planet. They are windows through the barriers
we have built between ourselves and the Others. Through Peter's
windows we experience the heart, guts and soul of these, our fellow
Beings, and cannot but realize that they and we are of one blood.
And that they deserve -- must have --our sympathy and understanding
if they are to survive the witless ruin we are making of their land
and ours. This book speaks for them and their desperate need as no
other I have seen for many years has done.--Farley Mowat, author of
People of the Deer, Never Cry Wolf, A Whale for the Killing,
Gorillas in the Mist, and Eastern Passage-- (10/01/2012)
Wolves and bears versus bureaucrats and big business -- that's the
situation in Banff National Park. Peter Dettling has seen it
firsthand and he tells it like it is. Part nature-writing, part
wildlife biology and part polemic, The Will of the Land is
extraordinary, a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of
wildlife in the national parks of the Rockies.--Ben Gadd,
naturalist, guide and author of Canadian Rockies Geology Road
Tours, Handbook of the Canadian Rockies and The Canadian Hiker's
and Backpacker's Handbook-- (10/01/2012)
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