Dykinga Jack Bowden Charles Ranney (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 11.10x11.00x0.90 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jack Dykinga (Photographer) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 11.25 inches by 11.25 inches. 11o, [2] pages. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Map. Index. Inscribed by the author/photographer on the title page. Inscription reads For David & Mary Ellen Enjoy this look at some hallowed ground for my wonderful friends! Jack Dykinga Decorative dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Requires extra shipping charges. The stunning vistas of the Grand Canyon come alive through the photography of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Dykinga. Complementing the photography, award-winning writers Charles Bowden and Wayne Ranney offer unique perspectives on the Canyon s magnificent beauty and the theories surrounding its fascinating formation. Jack William Dykinga (born January 2, 1943) is an American photographer. For 1970 work with the Chicago Sun-Times he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography citing "dramatic and sensitive photographs at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools for the Retarded in Illinois." He began his career at the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times before moving to Arizona, where he joined the Arizona Daily Star and taught at the University of Arizona. Dykinga left photojournalism in 1985. He started to work on a book about the Sonoran Desert. The publication of The Sonoran Desert launched his career as a nature and conservation photographer. Dykinga is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. His work appears in Arizona Highways and National Geographic. 2017: Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Nature Photography Association. Charles Bowden is the author of more than 20 non-fiction books, he is a winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Of one of Bowden s books, Frog Mountain Blues, New York Times book reviewer Emerson Trout wrote: "His prose trembles with a raw and vital energy that I find missing from much of the current writing about the vital questions of wildness and wilderness." Wayne Ranney is a geologist, author and guide. He strives to share his appreciation of the earth and its geologic history with anyone who is curious about landscapes and how they might have formed. In 2000, he participated in the Symposium on the Origin of the Colorado River that included more than 70 geologists. His book, Carving Grand Canyon, won the Glyph Award in the Best Science category from the Arizona Book Publishing Association and honorable mention from the National Outdoor Book Awards. The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet). The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. The surrounding area is contained within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.