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100 1  Larison, Jim,|d1948-|eauthor. 
245 10 On assignment :|bmemoir of a National Geographic filmmaker
       /|cJames R. Larison. 
264  1 Chicago, Illinois :|bChicago Review Press,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xiii, 255 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes filmography (pages 253-254). 
505 0  Part I: Coming into the wild. Lake Timagami -- Breaking 
       trail -- Egegik, Alaska -- The flying coffin -- Rescue and
       recovery -- The conversation -- Part II: On assignment. 
       That big break -- Our first assignment -- The Cayman 
       Trench -- Hart Mountain -- A living ocean -- Tiger shark! 
       -- Part III: Love of wilderness. The unforgiving world of 
       ice -- Robson Glacier -- Part IV: Advocacy. The living 
       Earth -- Old growth -- Ancient forests -- Diversity of 
       life -- Palau -- Egegik revisited -- Part V: Wounds that 
       will not heal. A world of wounds -- Epilogue: How films 
       were made. 
520    Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, 
       and living in wild places, making more than thirty 
       environmental films, most for the National Geographic 
       Society. These films won more than forty international 
       awards from leading environmental and broadcast 
       organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the 
       adventure and describes the rather substantial personal 
       costs of this career. While shooting film in Alaska, Jim 
       Larison narrowly survived a devastating airplane crash in 
       the Bering Sea. Later, while filming on the Great Barrier 
       Reef, the Larisons fought off an aggressive twelve-foot 
       tiger shark. Midway through their careers, the Larisons 
       were nearly swept to their deaths by an icefall while 
       filming on Mount Robson. A thrilling adventure story, full
       of risk and personal conflict, On Assignment is also a 
       touching look at the tender bonds that held the married 
       couple together while they struggled to complete their 
       many film assignments. The Larisons were changed by what 
       they saw and what they captured on film: the destruction 
       of forests, the death of coral reefs, and global warming. 
600 10 Larison, Jim,|d1948- 
600 10 Larison, Elaine. 
650  0 Motion picture producers and directors|zUnited States
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Screenwriters|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Cinematographers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Wildlife films|zUnited States|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Documentary films|zUnited States|xHistory and criticism. 
650  7 Screenwriters.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01109351 
650  7 Motion picture producers and directors.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01027225 
650  7 Documentary films.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00896079 
650  7 Cinematographers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00861478 
650  7 Wildlife films.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01175309 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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