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Rating(3.9 / 5.0, 38 votes)
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April 26,2025
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Krásné fotografie živé i neživé přírody, zajímavé informace o deštném lese (jeho druzích, životu a koloběhu, fauně i flóře...) a životě fotografa, který na dobrou fotografii čeká hodiny, dny i týdny... Za nejkrásnější kapitolu musím rozhodně označit tu o přežití a maskování.

Víte, že?
- Jedovaté pralesničky svůj jed samy nevytváří a mají je z pojídání mravenců, kteří pojídají jedovaté rostliny. Jedná žába by stačila na usmrcení i 50 lidí.
- Sklípkani dost špatně vidí, své oběti sledují pomocí chlupů na nohách a přenášení vibrací.
- Až 40 % života na zemi nežije v deštných pralesích, ale v korunách tamních stromů. Na půdu se totiž dostane jen asi 1 % slunečních paprsků, a jde tak o mnohem nehostinější prostředí, než se často myslí. Představa neprostupného zarostlého pralesa realitě odpovídá tak, jako pouště složené převážně z písečných dun (což nejsou).
- Oči nártouna jsou větší než mozek a dokonce tak velké, že s nimi nelze otáčet a nártoun musí otáčet celou hlavou.
- Voda černé Amazonky sice vypadá čistě, ale skoro nic v ní nežije, protože je "otrávená" teiny z rostlin.

Jen je tedy bohužel vidět, že i přes hodiny a hodiny obětované získání těch nejlepších fotografií, se od doby focení a následně vydání knihy zase technika o trochu posunula. I tak ale převažují fotografie technicky kvalitní a kniha za prolistování i pročtení stojí.
April 26,2025
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Phenomenal pictures. My favorite section: Deception. Large, highly detailed pictures in logical progressions. I like the white text on black background - easy to read. Informative coffee-table kind of book. If people can't combat climate change for the sake of cities and business, simply looking through a book like this will make everyone want to preserve these rain forests forever.
April 26,2025
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My friend and I tripped on mushrooms reading and listening to the soundtrack that comes with this book. Fabulous time.
April 26,2025
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This is a book that I want to own, I'm a photographer and this book is very motivating to me..its a beautiful, well-laid out, pictorial adventure into the Rainforest! This book is a great coffee table book or a great gift for anyone that appreciates the beauty in nature!
April 26,2025
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This books has fantastic photos and facts of a large number of exotic wildlife found throughout the Rainforest. Thomas Marent is an extraordinary photographer.
April 26,2025
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Incredible photos that will blow you away no matter how much rainforest footage you've seen. Great insights into the workings of rainforest ecosystems as well.
April 26,2025
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Rainforest” is a testament to the tenacity and passion that Thomas Marent has for his photographic art and nature. The book is an explosion of colour and characters that inhabit rainforests around the world in Australasia, Asia, Africa and South America.

The photography is stunning and enhanced by the anecdotes written throughout the pages about the lengths Thomas went to capture the images. Hours and days of patience, keeping awake through nights, immersing himself in water and mud, covered in leeches – there seem to be few obstacles that keep this man from capturing an image.

This book covers all facets of life in a rainforest by dividing the images into five sections on panorama, diversity, survival, cycles and society. We are taken on a top down view from the canopies and rivers, to animals, insects, plants and parasites. It shows the interconnectedness of all the elements and that a rainforest is truly a delicately balanced system.

As beautiful as this is as a coffee table book it is more importantly a document and record of a fragile environment that needs urgent protection. I hope many people can be as touched and moved by these images as I have been and take steps to preserve the rainforests as places of intrinsic value in themselves. Thomas Marent is a wonderful ambassador and I hope to find more of his books.
April 26,2025
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A stunner... and free! Picked up pretty much brand new at the town transfer station on Wednesday. I was looking this morning. Amazing photography...
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