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.Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands

by: John Annerino

September 28, 2003
This book was extremely disappointing unless you would like to know how many gallons of water it takes to illegally cross from Mexico into the United States. The author takes a liberal and sympathic view of illegals and tries to sway the reader into thinking that breaking the law is OK for these people. Give me a break. Where is the equal-sided journalism? What about the economic drain to healthcare, gang violence and drugs that these people bring into the United States? If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck then it is a duck. Illegals are illegals are illegals. Don't waste your time on this book.
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.The Photographer's Guide to Canyon Country: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them

by: John Annerino

February 07, 2006
"The Photographer's Guide to Canyon Country by John Annerino. From the author of Hiking the Grand Canyon, 3rd edition, (Sierra Club Books), offers a similarly intense focus. The introduction leads from Indians as the "first photographers" through pioneer photographers to how present-day photographers can define their goals and match them to modern techniques and equipment. The book hews to a no-nonsense formula, with chapters devoted to Mesa Verde, Zion, Canyonlands, Arches and five other national parklands. Annerino gives an overview of each, directions and contact information, along with tips for photographing the best sights and vistas. The text design is unremarkable and even slightly clunky, but the photos are National Geographic quality in both ... Read More:
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.Grand Canyon Wild: A Photographic Journey

by: John Annerino

September 30, 2004
"John Annerino captures the glories of this natural wonder in photographs and essays."
- Publishers Weekly

"Over a period of 20 years, professional photographer and writer John Annerino has explored some of the most remote corners of the Grand Canyon. Armed with a backpack and camera he expertly captured the magnificent beauty of this natural wonder and transformed his adventure into a book for all to enjoy."
- Petersen's Photography Magazine

"Before John Annerino even thought of being a photo artist, he wondered how to really capture the Grand Canyon, how to get to the real depths beyond the standard coffee-table books. After years of running, climbing, paddling and imaging through those depths and chasms, he produced ... Read More:
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.Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S.-Mexico Border

by: John Annerino

September 15, 2008
"John Annerino captures the glories of this natural wonder in photographs and essays."
- Publishers Weekly

"Over a period of 20 years, professional photographer and writer John Annerino has explored some of the most remote corners of the Grand Canyon. Armed with a backpack and camera he expertly captured the magnificent beauty of this natural wonder and transformed his adventure into a book for all to enjoy."
- Petersen's Photography Magazine

"Before John Annerino even thought of being a photo artist, he wondered how to really capture the Grand Canyon, how to get to the real depths beyond the standard coffee-table books. After years of running, climbing, paddling and imaging through those depths and chasms, he produced ... Read More:
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.Hiking the Grand Canyon: A Sierra Club Totebook

by: John Annerino

March 01, 2006
I was disappointed by this book. Mr. Annerino seems to be trying to impress us with his knowledge far too often and is long-winded most of the time. I much prefer authors who try to inform instead of impress, especially in a book that is basically a how-to-hike-in-the-Grand-Canyon book.

For example:
"... the Tonto Trail is the major east-west camino through the Grand Canyon." Now many, maybe even most, people who live in the parts of the US with a Spanish influence know that camino is Spanish for road. But how about other English speakers around the world?

Or another example:
"Assuming that the Colorado River isn't rumbling along at 30,000 cfs or more, you can follow the left-hand (south) side of the river ...". How ... Read More:
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.Running Wild: An Extraordinary Adventure from the Spiritual World of Running

by: John Annerino

December 18, 1997
I just could not get into this book. I am not exactly sure why, but I think I just could not identify with the author.
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.Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo

by: John Annerino

November 30, 2000
This book is a collection of 110 color photographs that capture the drama, tension, and excitement of the most dangerous rodeo events - bareback, saddle bronc, and bull riding. Working out of his home base in Tucson, Arizona, photographer John Annerino has taken his camera behind the chutes, where he gets about as close as any observer can to the experience of riding roughstock.

This is a handsomely designed book, and the photographs are vividly reproduced, the images richly detailed, crisp and clear, often filling the pages. In a two-page spread, a cowboy flies to the ground from a bucking bull, while bull fighters in their clown costumes circle the animal, late afternoon sun casting long shadows and illuminating a cloud of dust kicked up around them. The ... Read More:
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.Desert Light: A Photographer's Journey through America's Desert Southwest

from: Countryman

September 18, 2006
"I've lived in the Southwest most of my life, and I have never seen collections of photographs of this area before that are as beautiful and vividly alive as those shared by John Annerino in his latest book, Desert Light: A Photographer's Journey through America's Desert Southwest."

"As in his many other books of photographs over the last twenty years, Annerino keeps on finding those perfect moments to snap the shutter - moments when the clouds are stiller than still, the sand dunes can actually be perceived to be moving, the rock formations are hanging there wonderously living on and on, and the faces of those few humans one encounters out there seem to come out of past millennia. I've been watching this same desert country during countless hikes and climbs, yet Annerino's ... Read More:
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.Canyoneering: How to Explore the Canyons of the Great Southwest

by: John Annerino

1999-03
There are some great reviews of this book at Amazon. I love canyoneering. The book wasn't expensive through third parties (probably a sign of the poor quality). I decided to get it. It was a mistake. I don't understand why there are any good reviews of it.

With regard to the "how to" part of canyoneering it is a complete waste of time - poor or little information. For example, the author likes to use iodine tablets for water purification and promotes them over a purifier. However, Chlorine Dioxide (e.g., Aquamira) is more effective, leaves no taste, and is also lightweight - it isn't mentioned as a far superior alternative. Polyester isn't mentioned for clothing but polypropylene is. The book was published in 1999. These are just two of numerous such examples. Maybe ... Read More:
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.Apache: The Sacred Path to Womanhood

from: Marlowe & Company

1998-11
Apache is graphic & well-told as a photo story, which is rare indeed.
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