One of America's leading landscape photographers displays another forty of his best and most evocative black-and-white photographs. Ranging from the Garden of the Gods in Colorado to Baja's Santa Catalina Island to the tallgrass prairie in Kansas to the Florida Everglades.

Terry Falke's wry, lyrical photographs center on the terrain of the American Southwest and the ubiquity of humanity's imprint on it. The images in Observations in an Occupied Wilderness both honor and subvert the grand tradition of western landscape photography, conveying the bleak splendor of the land and Falke's sheer love of looking. Gorgeous, sardonic, and playful, Falke's work emphasizes beauty and incongruity, and is as much about human nature...

Through 250 exquisite full-color and black-and-white photos, photographer David Muench presents a superb visual interpretation of what the North American continent was like before the arrival of Europeans. Printed on high-quality paper with excellent reproduction, this is a stunning collection that will appeal to photographers as well as nature lovers.

Writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy and photographer Stephen Strom met in the fall of 2004 and began planning a collaborative book of images and prose expressing their shared love of the desert. Two months later, Meloy died suddenly at her home in southern Utah. Over the years to follow, Strom called on Meloy's writing to put his new photographs to words. The collaboration seemed to deepen over time, and it comes to fruition in This Desert Hides Nothing....

A must for everyone with a passion for the Southwest! Have you ever wanted to see with your own eyes all the beautiful locations found in coffee table books, posters, calendars, and travel magazines? Do you want to see the most photogenic spots in our parks and monuments? Do you want to visit spectacular off the beaten track locations outside the parks? Are you interested in rock art and early Native American dwellings? The Photographing the Southwest...

Celebrates a country cut from solid rock--simple, spare, sunstruck, frostformed, waterworn, windscoured, sandscrubbed--the surreal southwest, a simple landscape, simplified by time over time.--back cover.

Presents over one hundred black-and-white photographs commissioned from Ansel Adams by the U.S. government in 1941 that document the American wilderness, complemented by exerpts from the writings of naturalist John Muir.

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied — a German naturalist — and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors — designed to illustrate Maximilian’s journals — now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly...