Landscape photographs accompany selections from McPhee's writings about Switzerland, Alaska, the West, and the Pine Barrens

Outcroppings

Science & Math

Merrill, Christopher

Till, Tom

McPHEE,John

Earth Sciences

Gibbs-Smith

Utah, Magnificent Wilderness

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Westcliffe Pub

The American Southwest - Arizona, New Mexico, and the lower halves of Utah and Colorado - is a vast and relatively underpopulated space, dominated by earth and sky. Its majestic landscape of mountains, canyons, and dramatic rock formations exerts a profound influence on all who encounter it. Essayist Michael Grant leads us on a fascinating tour from desert ranchlands to mountaintop mining towns, blending his own experiences into discussions of geologic and cultural history. He reminds us of the mighty turmoil that, over eons, pushed up mountains, drained off seas, and raised seabeds to the sky, allowing wind, ice, and water to scour and sculpt fantastic pinnacles and canyons. He imagines for us a primitive tribe standing in awe at the edge of the Grand Canyon, and relates his own, modern-day experience of floating in a luxurious houseboat on man-made Lake Powell - still overwhelmed by a canyon's silent grandeur. He visits with a rancher who remembers cowboy shootouts from his childhood while his cattle browse on desert scrub to become ideally lean "gourmet cattle for the new age." With Grant we revisit old U.S. Route 66, which so affected America's expansion into the Southwest. He takes us back even further, to the heyday of the mountain mining towns, to Fred Harvey's collaboration with the Santa Fe Railway, to Navajo trading posts, and to a remote Zuni ritual site. It is the blending of past with present, of awesome landscape with human adjustments that makes the Southwest what it is today. But one thing has never changed, and that is the light. It remains the dominating factor in every Southwestern scene. Tom Till captures that light in all its glorious aspects. His photographs constitute a remarkably self-contained portrait of the Southwest, as well as an inspired complement to Michael Grant's essays. In full-color photographs, Till offers magnificent vistas and tiny flowers; rain showers and snow-powdered ancient ruins; boulders and sand dunes; cowboys and antique buildings; and the amazing Southwestern light shining on rocky spires, churches, waterfalls, aspen, and cactus. Till and Grant present indelible images of the American Southwest - where artists and tourists alike are continually tempted to slam on the brakes and stay forever.

American Southwest: A People and Their Landscape

GRANT, MICHAEL

McQuiston & Partners

Travel

Thunder Bay Pr

This is an exquisite 112-page volume of scores of large colorful photos of the fascinating Colorado landscape, all taken from the sky. For the Colorado lover, the mountain climber, and the lover of natural beauty and fine photography.

Colorado Images from Above

Tom Till, Utah's most published landscape photographer, continues his best-selling series of Utah photography books with Utah, Magnificent Wilderness.

History

Westcliffe Publishers

Utah: A Celebration of the Landscape Photography by Tom Till Text by Brooke Williams Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams 
Utah: A Celebration of the Landscape takes the reader on a visual journey through timeless wild lands. A collaborative effort between nationally known nature photographer Tom Till and writer Brooke Williams, the book showcases Utah’s natural wonders and reflects on its unique history.

Utah: Celebration of the Landscape

Fable Valley Publishers

Take a step back in time in this evocative photo journey through the ghost towns of the West.

Great Ghost Towns of the West

Graphic Arts Books

Magnificent large collection of Till's great color photos. The small text is by Brooke Williams. Most pictures were made in the S.E. quarter of Utah, the slickrock plateaux and canyons: the formations unique to the state. Much of this is land over which the development faction is fighting with the conservationist. This is a strong testimony for the latter. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Utah, a Centennial Celebration

Williams, Brooke

DRAMATIC PHOTOGRAPHS PAIRED WITH QUOTES FROM THE WORLD'S MOST NOTED WRITERS

Utah Reflections (Utah Littlebooks)

A comprehensive guide to New Mexico's wildlands includingsuch well-known areas as the Gila and Pecos wildernesses, and the lesser-known areas such as Latir Peaks, Apache Kid, and De-na-zhin wildernesses.

New Mexico's Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide

Julyan, Bob

United States

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Books by Till, Tom

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Outcroppings

Utah, Magnificent Wilderness

American Southwest: A People and Their Landscape

Colorado Images from Above

Utah, Magnificent Wilderness

Utah: Celebration of the Landscape

Great Ghost Towns of the West

Utah, a Centennial Celebration

Utah Reflections (Utah Littlebooks)

New Mexico's Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide