From along the Hulahula River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeast Alaska. "The Arctic terns, champion distance migrants, have just returned in early June from the Antarctic, where they spent a cold southern summer among the ice floes. Now they have just finished the twelve thousand-mile trip to their breeding grounds to spend the northern summer among the ice floes here in Alaska. In a few weeks they will leave to fly south, to find the southern ice again. Fueled by krill and tiny fish, these four-ounce birds travel almost pole to pole twice a year, and spend most of the year in transit." from David Sibleys essay in "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Seasons of Life and Land, A Photographic Journey" by Subhankar Banerjee. Other essays are written by Paul Matthiessen and Geoge Schaller, field biologists Fran Mauer and William Meadows and Arctic Village resident, educator and author Debbie Miller. Subhankar Banerjee spent 2 years exploring the area and its land and people and the book includes over 200 of his beautiful photos. "The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with clasped hands that we might act with restraint, leaving room for the life that is destined to come" from the poem Wild Mercy by Terry Tempest Williams.