The Whale. Photographs by Chuck Koosmann. Text by David Ledlie

[Afton, Minnesota]: White Pine Prints, 2012. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black cloth. As new in dust jacket. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Lavishly illustrated work on the Whale River Salmon Camp, founded in 1967 by Stan Karbowski (1917-2010), the people, the flora, and the surrounding landscape of northern Quebec. The photographer, Chuck Koosman, first visited the Whale in 2001. David Ledie has fished the river for 18 years, and chronicles the history of the camp and the changes in the salmon runs over the decades, noting that the numbers of fish seen and caught came back dramatically when the Greenland and Newfoundland commercial salmon fisheries were bought out.

A beautiful production.