Photographs and descriptions show how U.S. Highway 40, from Atlantic City to San Francisco, has changed since 1953

U.S. 40 Today: Thirty Years of Landscape Change in America

Geraldine

Vale, Thomas R.

Vale, Geraldine R.

Science & Math

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Walking with Muir across Yosemite

Does todays visitor trekking Yosemite National Park find it much different from what John Muir encountered a century ago? Thomas and Geraldine Vale retrace Muirs path, based upon journal descriptions of his activities and experiences during his first summer in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. From the foothills through Yosemite Valley and on up to the Tuolumne Meadows, the Vales follow the present roads and trails that crossed Muirs route, imagining his reaction to the landscape while reflecting on the natural world in both his time and ours. Illustrated with drawings by John Muir and drawings and photos by the Vales, Walking with Muir across Yosemite emphasizes that current visitors to Yosemiteindeed to any national parkcan still experience the solitude, wildness, and romanticism of nature. They believe, however, that this modern exploration would benefit from a national parks policy that actively promotes nature study and encourages a more profound interaction between humans and the natural world.

Walking With Muir Across Yosemite

History

Americas

Examines the landscape along Highway 89 from Arizona to Montana, and discusses how the region is changing

Western Images, Western Landscapes: Travels Along U.S. 89

Earth Sciences

University of Arizona Press

In 1901 John Muir described Yosemite: "Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another." Time and the Tuolumne Landscape presents a spellbinding glimpse of this endless song. Through repeat photography, the process whereby a scene in an old picture is precisely rephotographed, Thomas and Geraldine Vale use over eighty photo pairs to document continuity and change in the Tuolumne landscape from Muir's time to our own. In their consideration of change, the Vales offer a meditation on rock and water, vegetation, and human impact. Natural process is comparable, in one sense, to an intricate timepiece with myriad wheels spinning at varying speeds, some stopping or starting without warning, others reversing direction, a few steady on course. Which changes we see, and which changes we comprehend, are limited by the scale of human time. This book is an opportunity to move beyond that constraint to see, with Muir, the whirl and flow of nature.

Time and the Tuolumne Landscape: Continuity and Change in the Yosemite High Country

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ of Utah Pr

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