The publication of this richly illustrated book is a welcome event for scientists, writers, photographers, and armshair travelers, since here, for the first time in book form, are reproduced more than 300 color photographs by Tui De Roy Moore, the only photographer who has had access to the Galapagos since childhood. For more than ten years she has concentrated on capturing the most unusual and revealing aspects of the islands - views that have eluded photographers with limited time and access to remote areas. Here we can see large groups of wild tortoises atop the volcano Alcedo, the nesting albatross on Hood Island, and such rarely seen species as the flightless rail, the Galapagos owl, and the woodpecker finch. Mrs. Moore was able to film eruptions of the volcano on Fernandina Island and to spend hours waiting for the perfect shot of a Galapagos hawk circling the smoldering caldera. She has also recorded a battle between bull sea lions, albatrosses in courtship display, and the flowering of endemic plants never even seen by tourists. Her text, which encompasses the latest scientific theories about the formation of the Galapagos, the evolution of its wildlife, and her own observations about its ecology and conservation, is another unique feature of this remarkable book.