JUNGLE JOURNEY: Wild India

Joan Myers
Essay by William deBuys

Forthcoming Fall 2012 George F. Thompson Publishing

WILD INDIA is inspired by Joan Myers’s encounters with jungles and animals in remote areas of India, and by Kipling’s Just So Stories, which she read, as many of us did, as a child. WILD INDIA is her homage both to that book and to the wild parts of India  that few travelers ever see, much less know about, and which are rapidly vanishing in the face of increasing development and industrialization.

Joan Myers has been taking photographs for more than thirty years, exploring the relationships between people and the land. Her highly acclaimed work has been the focus of three Smithsonian exhibitions, numerous solo and group shows, and six books.

They include Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey (with text by Sandra Blakeslee), which was published by Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, and awarded Honorable Mention in the American Association of Museums’ 2006 Publication Competition. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-down California (with text by William deBuys), won the 1999 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and the 1999 William P. Clements Prize for the best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America; it was published by the University of New Mexico Press.  Her current work centers on volcanic and geothermal sites around the world.