In West Coast, David Freese changed the way we see the Pacific coastline. In East Coast, he presents an equally expansive photographic sojourn from Greenland to the Florida Keys.
The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet threatened coastline. It zigs and zags for more than 5,500 miles and assumes a multifaceted, jigsaw shape from Greenland and the Arctic Circle, south to the Canadian Maritimes and then into the United States, ending at the Dry Tortugas in the Florida Keys near the Tropic of Cancer. In this companion book to his compelling West Coast: Bering to Baja, David Freese once again captures a vast coastal region—one that presently faces a major peril from the rising sea brought about by global climate change.

There are wonderful surprises here. The remote regions of Greenland, northern Québec, Labrador, and Newfoundland offer breathtaking beauty that many people would not normally associate with the East Coast. And then there are the multiple towns and cities, rivers, bays, and estuaries, wildlife refuges, parks, and beaches, and other coastal landscapes that create stunning images—from the ground and from the air—that reveal their fragility in the face of a rising sea.
In addition to Freese's 188 photographs, Simon Winchester, a master storyteller, provides an informative and enlightening account of the geological underpinnings and climatic history of the Atlantic seaboard, including an ominous view of what lies ahead. Jenna Butler, an award-winning Canadian author, provides noteworthy commentary on Freese's photographs, as she places the images in context with the expansive North American environment and explains the effects and risks of global warming to the populations of Canada and the United States.