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Author
Publisher
Arizona Highways Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
176 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 28 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arizona's rugged and diverse landscape is one of Earth's most magnificent and exotic areas. In this book, beset with full-color photographs of the area, the multitalented Childs (Grand Canyon: Time Below the Rim, Crossing Paths), a naturalist, former river guide, backpacker, National Public Radio commentator, sketcher, and adventurer, takes the reader from Four Corners (where Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado meet) southward through the constantly...
Author
Publisher
Canyonlands Natural History Assoc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Illuminated Desert is a stunning dialogue between painting and prose by two daughters of the Colorado Plateau: Terry Tempest Williams and Chloe Hedden. This is more than an "abecedarian" or Alphabet Book. It is an exquisite rendering of the red rock canyons of southern Utah and the natural history that evokes a poetry of place. The audience for this book is the audience of the desert itself, beginning with the children and shared with adults in...
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
124 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet the plants, animals, and natural features of the spellbinding Southwest -- New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, far west Texas, and parts of adjacent northern Mexico.
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
219 p.
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives and works of writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opal desert: Cabeza de Vaca, William L. Manly, J. Ross Browne, Samuel W. Cozzens, Charles F. Lummis, Mary Austin, John C. Van Dyke, William T. Hornaday, John Wesley Powell, William E. Smythe, J. Smeaton Chase, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Charles Bowden, and Peter Reyner Banham.
Author
Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xi, 164 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book represents the culmination of David Grant Noble's forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer. It features seventy-six duotone plates and five additional photos of the land, people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the first time. Accompanying these beautiful images are personal reflections interwoven with historical and anthropological information. The moving passages reveal much about both the man and...
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