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Heart of the Desert Wild combines naturalist writer Greer K. Chesher's thought provoking prose with photographer Liz Hymans' spectacular panoramic images to evoke the wonder of Grand Staircase-Escalante. Beginning with the land's rocky past and combing through the woven layers of place - native grasses and bighorn sheep, the sound of moving waters and the people drawn to them, strange soils and rare plants - the book provides an intergrated geography of what anthropollogist Clyde Kluckhohn once called the "last Holy Place."
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The book is the first overview of the new monument to be published and includes an introductory chapter on the monument's designation history. Additional chapters focus on the monument's amazing geology; the people who throughtout time, have called this place home; the monument's rare and intriguing plants, animals and natural systems, and concludes with a chapter highlighting the artists, writers, poets, and photographers who have found inspiration in this wonderous region.
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A 1.9 million-acre blank spot- For almost twelve thousand years people have lived in this desert wilderness that is part of the American Southwest. After European-American settlement throughout the western United States, this place was not only rugged but remote, so much so that it was a blank spot on the map, literally. In this volume, author Greer Chesher and photographer Liz Hymans take us into Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and help us dig deep into its beauty and meaning. What can the records of evolution and mass extinctions preserved in the monument's rock layers tell us about the survival of our own species? How does a crust of tiny living organisms "hold the world of the monument together"? Who made clay maidens and who left the ghostly figures that gaze at us from high canyon walls? How, and why, did a party of Mormon pioneers lower wives, children, and all their earthly possessions in wagons down a 2000-foot cliff?
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- PublisherBryce Canyon Natural History Assn
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1882054075
- ISBN 13 9781882054077
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages108
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