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Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xi, 148 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Water plays different roles in the desert. It appears when we least expect it and hides when we want it most. Rain falls but never reaches the ground, and dry washes abruptly become rivers. One constant holds true: water enables life. In Desert Wetlands a distinguished photographer and a passionate naturalist document sites in the American Southwest and Mexico that are gauges to the environment. The wetlands included are Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Coahuila,...
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
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
192 p. : col. ill., maps ; 30 x 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographer Tom Till and essayist Michael Grant join forces to transport us to the timeless land that lies at the heart of the country's western legends. In stunning, full-color photographs and entertaining, conversational essays they present the people and places that define the Southwest. It is a territory dominated by light and landscape, where our high-powered technological rides of the last decades fall into the background, and the planet seems...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
119 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 25 c 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the great desert landscapes of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah with over 85 full-color photographs of glowing canyons, towering cacti, and wide open skies. The power of this dramatic land is further revealed in the Native American creation myths of the Pima, Zuni, Sia, Navajo, and Wasco people.
Publisher
Rio Nuevo Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
567 p. : maps, col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lizards of the American Southwest covers all 96 species found in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Texas west of the Pecos River. Learn where to find lizards and how to identify them. Includes detailed information on habitat, natural history, taxonomy, viewing tips, plus hundreds of photos, illustrations, and maps.
Author
Series
Photographing the Southwest volume 1
Publisher
PhotoTripUSA Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
382 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
10) Stone & silence
Author
Publisher
Western Eye Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
50 p. of plates : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
118 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Native American weavings are fascinating to behold for the cultural significance they embody as well as their bold, geometric designs incorporating fine natural pigments. Filled with more than 100 color photographs, this book presents striking images of southwestern landscapes juxtaposed on the page with exceptional examples of woven rugs and blankets. The text melds Hopi legend with historical fact to reveal spiritual connections between ancient...
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...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
1987, c1973
Physical Desc
213 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many fascinating faces, personalities almost visible, of Hopi, Zuni, Laguna, Acoma, Navajo peoples, all taken in their pueblos or hogans. Each photo has a detailed explanation of what is shown, including (often) the story behind it. This is probably the best collection of such photos between covers available on the people of this area, and most were taken between 1895 and 1904.
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