The author explores the natural, geologic, social, and spiritual history of her home in the southeastern desert environs of Utah.

A love story that takes place at one of the famous places that was drowned by Lake Powell and the characters whose lives would irrevocably change. The book is a triple love story: the affair between Katie and the cowboy/miner; the characters that lived in Dandy Crossing before the river rose to drown it; and, the love of the beauty of Glen Canyon that would soon be drowned.

The author's journey through the Southwest, with over two hundred photographs taken by his brother.

A collection of 17 new essays by the well known writer on the American southwest. The title essay reflects on his 1962 raft trip through Glen Canyon just before it was flooded by a dam. Others discuss eccentric desert dwellers, a stay at a wigwam hotel, astronomers' attempts to keep western cities dark, and other peculiarities of the region.

Two men who retraced Coronado's 1540-1541 journey across the Southwest describe their experiences battling heat, cold, and drought and present a portrait of the modern Southwest as Coronado might have viewed it.

Craig Childs, a naturalist and river guide, explores the appearances of water in the Arizona deserts, including underground rivers, flash floods, night rivers, and hidden lakes.

The ancient, arid, and magnificently picturesque country that makes up the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah is the subject of this fascinating and comprehensive book. With the aid of many stunning photographs Mr. Wohlrabe describes the geological development of desert and canyon and the history and culture of the peoples who have lived there.

In traveling through the American Southwest and Alaska, Lopez finds new, once hidden, meanings in natural phenomenon -- flocks of geese and Arctic fox tracks -- and remnants of lost human cultures. The land and humans, he concludes, share a strong spiritual bond that echoes and impacts the universe's great rhyme of life. Elegantly told against a haunting and beautiful melodic backdrop, Crossing Open Ground propels us into a new posture -- indeed a...

Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the...

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...