Written by Gail Baird with photography by Dan Bernard, Gail Baird & Andy Jackman; casebound with dust jacket; 160 full colour pages. This book celebrates the beauty, isolation and uniqueness of the Falkland Islands through their vast landscapes, uninhibited wildlife and warm and generous people.
The English naturalist and geologist, Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands in the 1830s to collect information on geology, flora and fauna: his research would later influence and inform his work on evolutionary theory. Sealers and whalers established successful industries there in the late eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, but few people back in the UK had heard of this British Overseas Territory, made up of over 750 tiny islands far away in the South Atlantic Ocean, before April 2, 1982, when Argentina invaded . . . the rest of that story, they say, is history.
