Unprecedented Photographic Collection of World’s Remaining Wild

In more than 200 striking images, acclaimed South African photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford have created an unparalleled portrait of some of our planet’s most untouched places.

Authors of the book, Peter and Beverly Pickford are professional wildlife photographers, committed conservationists, and inveterate travellers and explorers. They have collected the images for the book from across the globe, including Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, Alaska, the Arctic, Australia, Tibet and Patagonia.

“In partnership with Nikon, Wild Land documents some of the most extreme landscapes and highlights the desperate need to preserve these locations,” explains Ben Williams, GM: Marketing for Exclusive Books. “We are immensely proud to have a book of this caliber on our shelves.”

South African-born, and after following careers in safari-lodge and reserves, and hotel management respectively; Peter and Beverly are widely hailed as award-winning photographers. Their work has carried them across all of earth’s continents to produce nine books, among them the bestselling The Miracle Rivers: The Okavango and the Chobe of Botswana and the critically acclaimed Forever Africa: A Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco. Beverly and Peter’s photography has earned them numerous awards, including the Agfa Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Publishers of the book, Bookstorm, describe the book as, “A landmark natural history title from two of South Africa’s most famed wildlife photographers.”

Wild Land’s stunning images are accompanied by a fascinating text in which Peter not only vividly describes the photographers’ adventures in pursuit of wild land, but also delivers a timely message that highlights the urgent need for these lands to be preserved for the future of the planet – a future on which humankind’s very survival is dependent.

The making of Wild Land

Peter and Beverly Pickford are passionate about wilderness. More than thirty-five years ago, they stepped out of the security of their professions and began their first book on the wilderness areas of northeastern South Africa.

Their unrelenting determination to see such an immense project through has been driven by a belief in the power of photography and the written word. A photograph and its related story has the capacity to reach hundreds of thousands of people: in the intimacy of their home, in their work place or in their quite moments. And it can influence the paradigm of their thinking. It is this belief – coupled with the conviction that real wilderness protection lies not in laws and official jurisdictions, but in the hearts of a nation’s people – that urged Peter and Beverly on their journey to bring what wild land remains to the notice of the world.

For Wild Land, Peter and Beverly have broken out of the mould of traditional wildlife photography to create a unique photographic style. They stepped back from their subject, and, instead, made images of the vast scope of the wilderness, emphasising wild animals’ dependence on their environment. The resulting four-hundred-page epic is a tribute to the power of innovative photographic imagery. Wild Land aches with what words struggle to describe: the resonance of wilderness in our inner being, the power of land to transform our emotion, and our ability to transcend the immediate and become sublime.

To hold the book, is to journey, not only to the physical places that Peter and Beverly found in their exploration of the extremes of the earth, but also to experience humility and awe in places so wild they induce fear. It is to know what J. W. N. Sullivan meant when he wrote:

“At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time. “