Description

Callaway, New York [Published date: 2000]. Hardcover in dust jacket, 94 pp; 17 x 25 cm; First edition (with full number line). Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Very good condition / very good dust jacket. Oblong cream paper over boards with title stamped in black on spine; light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Interior clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket reproducing a sailing regatta on Georgica Pond (front) and a child and dog in a small boat (rear); jacket shows faint surface rubbing and scuffing, and very light soiling to rear cover. Not price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] Georgica Pond is one of the most exclusive and sought-after havens of natural beauty in the world residents include Steven Spielberg and Martha Stewart. Naturalists and Hampton-watchers can now turn to this elegant volume for a vision of the quiet beauty of this marvelous body of water. Lying on the east end of Long Island, in East Hampton, Georgica Pond has been called "one of the last great places on earth." A five-fingered tidal pond fed by springs, it is home to a wide range of plant and animal life, including some of the rarest waterbirds such as the Eurasian black-headed gull and the piping plover. Georgica Pond also boasts a wealth of human activity, including sailing, fishing, swimming, kayaking, crabbing, and bird-watching. Local resident and renowned photographer, Priscilla Rattazzi, has spent the last ten years documenting the life of the pond from her unique perspective, observing its changing moods, and capturing the singular beauty of its light. Georgica Pond is the first book devoted entirely to the pond, and features 90 exquisite black-and-white photographs. The book is arranged as a meditation on the passage of the seasons including short essays by some of the pond's most noted residents: Donald Petrie on spring, Eleanore Kennedy on summer, Robert Benton on fall, and Kelly Klein on winter.