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Get a preview of Peter and Beverly Pickford’s new book, documenting a four-year journey to all seven continents.

Peter and Beverly Pickford lead an enviable life: The acclaimed wildlife photographers have spent decades exploring the most spectacular places on Planet Earth, and when they’re not bouncing through the Kaokoveld in their Land Rover or scudding across the Arctic Ocean in a Zodiac, they live immersed in nature in a private reserve on the West Coast that they established. Their latest coffee table book, Wild Land, documents a four-year journey across seven continents, as the conservationists sought out some of the last wild places in a bid to help preserve their fragile beauty.

“It’s a sense that comes to you from beyond your senses,” says Peter, describing the feeling of being in a place so utterly devoid of humankind. “It seeps through your skin.”

Gemsbok climb a low ridge in the Khumib Valley, in Namibia’s Kaokoveld, as a full moon rises behind them.

HOW? Nikon D4, Nikkor 200 – 400 mm lens, shutter speed 1/100 second, aperture f4. #177

A humpback whale breaches against a backdrop of snowcovered mountains in Alaska’s Inside Passage.

HOW? Nikon D3, Nikkor 70 – 200 mm lens, shutter speed 1/1 000 second, aperture f8.