<p><strong>From the author/illustrator team that produced the bestselling Reading the Forested Landscape comes this fascinating and beautiful natural history of North America's granite summit balds.</strong></p> This fascinating new book focuses on a rare and dramatic landscape: the granite summit balds of North American mountains. Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these high, wild places. He explores the unique and fragile ecosystem that is common to exposed granite expanses from Acadia to Yosemitehow it evolved slowly over millennia, and how it is threatened today by foot traffic and overuse. Wessels' dramatic photographs and Brian Cohen's beautifully detailed illustrations bring the denizens of the granite bald to life. The mountains they celebrate include: Acadia National Park in Maine; the White Mountains of New Hampshire; the Adirondacks of New York; the Wind Rivers of Wyoming; the Beartooths of Montana; the Enchantments of Washington; and Yosemite National Park in California. 18 black &amp; white photographs, 30 illustrations, 1 map, glossary, index.

The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite

Science & Math

Wessels, Tom

Cohen, Brian D.

Biological Sciences

Countryman Press

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The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite