Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing Tapa blanda - 2006
de Brooke Williams; Chris Noble (Photographer)
Descripción de la solapa
aThere is nothing out there.a Such is the claim, at least, of politicians and oil company executives, amazed that anyone would fight to protect the miles of plateaus and canyon bottoms that stretch across southern Utah. Even tourists see this region as an empty spot on the mapaan excuse to drive directly from Capitol Reef to Arches National Park. But it is precisely thisanothingathat writer Brooke Williams and photographer Chris Noble find captivating about Escalante. In this thoughtful and exquisitely illustrated rumination, the authors tour the network of chasms and gorges that began forming millions of years ago on the Colorado Plateau and today constitute a desert paradise of mesas, buttes, and boundless solitude. At the center of this landscape is the region known as Escalante, 1.7 million mostly roadless acres, where silence, darkness, and emptiness have no intrusions. With refreshing originality and a haunting rhythm to his prose, Williams reflects on the notion of space and seclusion both internally and externally. Williams also celebrates the landscape: its geology, flora and fauna, its people from the ancient Fremont to its Mormon pioneers, hiking aficionados and recluses such as Everett Ruess, and the controversial politics involved with the creation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Chris Nobleas photographs break down the distinction often felt even in very fine photos, that between the observer and the place. These images pull the reader into the landscape, seamlessly merging the experience and the setting. Part narrative, part poetry, and part meditation, this book charts the quiet places where the human spirit delights in solitude. It reminds us of ourintimate connection with the wild and of the landscapeas powerful pulse especially when there is nothing to be found.
Detalles
- Título Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing
- Autor Brooke Williams; Chris Noble (Photographer)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 96
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ
- Fecha de publicación October 30, 2006
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780816524587 / 0816524580
- Peso 0.67 libras (0.30 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.9 x 8.52 x 0.2 pulgadas (25.15 x 21.64 x 0.51 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Utah
- Library of Congress subjects Escalante River Region (Utah) - Description, Williams, Brooke - Travel - Utah - Escalante
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006013558
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.925
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2006, Page 80
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