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Park Profiles: Canyon Country Parklands by: National Geographic Society |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 979.13 EAN: 9780792273530 ISBN: 0792273532 Label: National Geographic Manufacturer: National Geographic Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: March 01, 1998 Publisher: National Geographic Release Date: March 01, 1998 Studio: National Geographic Sales Rank: 797867 Browse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: This collection is put together like a National Geographic magazine, with the stories all focusing on the 130,000-square-mile wilderness dubbed "the Great Unknown" by Major John Wesley Powell in 1869. Now shared by Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, this area includes dazzling mesas and buttes, soaring stone pinnacles and arches, and daunting deep canyons and cliffs. Presented in the magazine's personalized reporting style with National Geographic's infamous color photos, this is a book worth having if you're headed to these parks--or have good memories of a visit there. A 16-page special section covers the diversity of plants and animals in the area. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - A very good overview of the Colorado Plateau regionI am a Colorado Plateau freak, I must confess. As this book so excellently shows, every nook, every niche of that region is festooned with some new, arresting wonder, or so it seems. Canyon Country Parklands is first remarkable for its photography. I have seldom seen the essence of this beautiful region captured so well. Indeed, many of the photos catch that magical light that seems to leap from the rock walls themselves. Even those parks long photographed, such as Zion National Park, attain a new height in beauty through the pictures in this book. A magnificent effort!! The text is very readable and captures much of the magic of this region as well. I especially recommend the sections on Plateau wildlife and on ... Read More: |
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