{"id":25229,"date":"2019-10-30T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2019-10-29T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:28:46","slug":"book-report-the-world-of-the-polar-bear-by-norbert-rosing-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/book-report-the-world-of-the-polar-bear-by-norbert-rosing-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The World of the Polar Bear<\/i> by Norbert Rosing (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/theworldofthepolarbear.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This book is my 100th of the year, and it&#8217;s not even November.  Of course, I look back at what I&#8217;ve &#8220;read&#8221; this year, and it is a lot of artist monographs and poetry collections, so perhaps I should not be so proud.<\/p>\n<p>This book collects a number of astounding photos of arctic wildlife and landscapes focusing on bears.  It has a bit of text talking about the arctic seasons and the habits and habitat of polar bears.  Amid this text, though, is a bit of allusion to what an arctic nature photographer has to do to get the photographs.  Travel far north, hire a competent guide, find signs of animal habitation, and then wait for hours <em>or days<\/em> to get the shot.  And to work with camera equipment not really optimized for subzero temperatures.  Frankly, that&#8217;s almost as interesting as the photos.<\/p>\n<p>Which are very interesting indeed.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an equipment section at the end for <a href=\"https:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photography buffs<\/a> to geek out on.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely worth my dollar and couple of hours, although the large form factor of this book displeased my cats who could not sit on my lap whilst I read it and are glad I am done with it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is my 100th of the year, and it&#8217;s not even November. Of course, I look back at what I&#8217;ve &#8220;read&#8221; this year, and it is a lot of artist monographs and poetry collections, so perhaps I should not be so proud. This book collects a number of astounding photos of arctic wildlife and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25230,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions\/25230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}