Mountain climber, explorer, photographer: John Beatty is all these things, and his book combines his varied vocations in a declaration of love and respect for our planet. A record of Beatty's experiences in the Antarctic, in the Grand Canyon, making a dangerous crossing of Greenland, and climbing in Scotland and in the Alps, Earthborn also shows aspects of nature in close-up and demonstrates in words and pictures how people and their environment are indivisible. - From the book jacket.