A celebrated landscape photographer couples his pictures of Utah's well- and lesser-known wilderness with an engaging and informative essay by a Salt Lake Tribune columnist to provide a complete, compelling, and visually stunning portrait of Utah.

Product Description: PMLandscape of Desire powerfully documents and celebrates aplace and the evolutions that occur when human beings are intimatelyconnected to their surroundings. Greg Gordon accomplishes this with atapestry of writing that interweaves land use history, natural history,experiential education, and personal reflection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The naturalist and acclaimed author of Refuge celebrates her long-time love affair with the desert country of the American Southwest in lyrical essays that capture the beauty and power of the desert environment and eloquently evoke her fierce commitment to protect the fragile environment from human destruction. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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An inspirational journey follows the experiences of a woman as she embraces the four elements--earth, fire, water, and air--in a desert landscape setting and, along the way, comes to terms with her past, body, and self. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Product Description: Edward Geary’s collection of writings on the High Plateau country of central and southern Utah, a combination guidebook, travel narrative, personal essays, and natural, social, and literary history, encompasses each of those forms with a sweep as broad as the landscape it describes...read more

Recounts the experiences of the government expedition sent to explore the Great Salt Lake region of Utah in 1849 to 1850

Product Description: Title: Report of explorations across the great basin of the Territory of Utah for a direct wagon-route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859.Author: J H SimpsonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s...read more

Explores the Grand Gulch Plateau, where both man and nature have adapted to the desertlike climate, and traces its history from the ancient Anasazi culture to current attempts at oil drilling