Winner of the Ocean Club Award of Merit for 2010.This is the story of an unparalleled around-the-world voyage through areas that are as close as you can get to unspoilt wilderness.
For 26 years, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, with their 12 metre ...
Winner of the Ocean Club Award of Merit for 2010.
This is the story of an unparalleled around-the-world voyage through areas that are as close as you can get to unspoilt wilderness.
For 26 years, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, with their 12 metre two-masted boat Northern Light, have sailed in the seas around the poles. They have succeeded in going ashore on islands that on account of their inhospitable climate are very rarely visited. Most places are entirely uninfluenced by man, are so beautiful they leave you speechless, and have a fauna that most people today simply can’t imagine.
Wilderness Ocean is about Deborah and Rolf’s third voyage to the southernmost sea of the globe – the Southern Ocean (sometimes called the Antarctic Ocean). This time four years, around the world in the Southern Ocean – the largest wilderness area on this Earth – larger than Europe and Asia together. The purpose of the voyage was to see the most remote islands on our globe with new eyes, in a world that is forever changing.
Wilderness Ocean is an urgent book for all those who love nature, a book in which the authors share their magnificent experiences. In their personal texts, they report from some of the most inaccessible places about the unique beauty of this untouched wilderness but also about mankind’s influence on nature. The book is richly illustrated with fantastic pictures. Hopefully the book will give the reader the inspiration necessary
so that we shall all help best we can to protect the world’s wilderness areas – the very life nerve between mankind and nature – which we are dependent upon, on this blue planet that we call our Earth.