Michael Bearzi, American Alpine Journal, 2000
The scope of this book is one of its virtues. While most visitors to Patagonia limit themselves to the eastern sides of the Fitz Roy and Paine areas, Neilson has ventured into the heart of the matter, most notably on a voyage in 1977 and 1978 that began in Scotland on a sailboat ... Neilson was in Patagonia with a photographer's eye, and we are treated to photos that are crafted, taken with a photographer's patience and tenacity to find that perfect perspective and moment. Familiar vistas are revisited as well as far more esoteric images of remote fiords, valleys, mountain- and ice-scapes ... Patagonia is things extreme, near earth's end, where outworldly landscapes are manifest and primal forces remain unbridled. Some of this Patagonian essence can be experienced vicariously: Neilson's 25,000 words and 61 plates do a superb job of conveying it
Rosemary Sorensen, The Brisbane Courier-Mail, July 3, 1999
Australian photographer David Neilson has a particular love for the dramatic Patagonian landscape...his pictures, in colour and black and white, display the majestic stillness that reduces human pettiness to trivia. He calls the final trip the "highlight of his life", and it's clear why. His photographs of the mountains, glaciers, volcanoes and waterfalls, with vistas like those over Hyatt Sound, are impossibly beautiful, as though the Valhalla of the gods really existed...
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