Spirit of the Wild

Book excerpt: Here is a new, compact gift edition of Steve Blooms breathtaking photographs of wildlife around the world. Blooms goal, brilliantly realised here, is to capture the animals spirit: the tigers eye gleaming brightly in the jungles of India; polar bear cubs seeing the world for the first time; the rare mountain gorillas of Africa. The result is a perpetual dance for the eye, the embodiment of natures choreography and an intimate exploration which reveals not only the animals but much that is new about ourselves.