Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, leads us on a journey deep into a vast and remote land that remains, untamed by technology and undisturbed by human development, both free and wild. In turns celebratory and contemplative, emotionally evocative and beautifully fierce, Arctic Sanctuary’s photographic images, lyrical essays, and informative notes pay homage to the wilderness ethic and wilderness itself. Guided by photographer Jeff Jones’s sure and well-developed vision, Arctic Sanctuary offers us a window into a world that is ecologically intact and innervated by evolutionary processes still at work. The book invites us to examine our own ideas of wilderness in the modern world while returning to the intangible values, of spirit and place, that the founders of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge experienced in its mountains, river valleys, forests, and coastal plain.

Arctic Sanctuary features more than 150 of Jeff Jones's images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and essays by Laurie Hoyle. Introduction by Michael Engelhard. See a sample of the book's images. The book will travel with the Arctic Sanctuary exhibit (read more) beginning in fall 2010 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Arctic Refuge.

Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
by Jeff Jones and Laurie Hoyle
Introduction by Michael Engelhard
Published by the University of Alaska Press; release September 2010

Cloth, 9 x 14 inches, 184 pages, 153 images of the Arctic Refuge
$55. Available from: University of Alaska Press, University of Chicago Press, fine book stores, Amazon

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In Jeff Jones’s masterly landscapes of the Arctic I find a majestic peace and a powerful call to action to protect this sanctuary of wildlife and wildness. This book beautifully showcases a pristine land caught in the crosshairs of the greatest of human calamities, including global climate change and the grim search for energy resources. 

—Art Wolfe, photographer and host of public television’s Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge


In the tradition of Thomas Moran’s grand landscape paintings of Yellowstone that galvanized support for the creation of the first national park, nearly a century and a half later photographer Jeff Jones with his majestic and sublime panoramas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge achieves something quite magical. This magnificent book at once celebrates five decades of conservation efforts to keep the refuge free of oil and gas development and at the same time, it marks an important turning point and raises a simple question—do we as a society have the resolve to finally and now permanently protect this Arctic Sanctuary as wilderness? We must.

—Subhankar Banerjee, author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life
and Land


These images of the Arctic look as though they have been painted with spectacular colors that leapt off a magical palette of wildness. Jeff Jones’s magnificent photographs depict the Arctic as the sanctuary it truly is: the birthplace of an abundance of life, from caribou to swans, polar bears to swallows.

—Cindy Shogan, executive director, Alaska Wilderness League