If you are going to only buy one book on Yosemite, this is the book. It is a combination of interpretive information and photography of the best landscape photographers in the United States. A top seller at the visitor center in the park. Buy this before you go to the park to get your excited about your visit or after a visit to serve as a source of memories for years to come. Over 5 million people have purchased our books over the years. You can count on quality every time you open our pages. 
A user friendly guide to the wildflowers of Yosemite and the central Sierra Nevada. Used as a field text by Yosemite personnel and the University of California. More than 200 color photographs identify 224 species. Also includes maps of select wildflower sites and regions.

Wildflowers of Yosemite

Science & Math

Lynn Wilson

Jim Wilson

Jeff Nicholas

Biological Sciences

Sierra Press

To be in Yellowstone National Park is to confront a spectacular landscape and fascinating geological features. The quality of your encounter is directly proportional to the amount of time spent in the presence of these 'spectacles". It seems a great injustice to tarry but briefly at a roadside rest along the Grand Loop Road because this Park is much, much more than just magnificent features. It is a delicate arrangement of wildlife, plants, water, geology and human history.

Yellowstone (Postcard Books)

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Grand Canyon: A Visual Study

Each title in The Visual Interpretations Series is lavishly illustrated with the full-color imagery of America's leading landscape photographers, yet bargain priced. Each title includes captions and a concise essay on the natural and human histories of the subject.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Scenes from the Grand Circle is a stunning collection of nearly 100 photographs by twenty photographers, many of whom are Plateau residents, celebrating the beauty of this majestic landscape in all its moods. 
Each of the portfolios contained herein presents the Grand Circle in all its glory, from the famous landmarks to the subtlest of intimate details. A stirring text introduces each portfolio, hinting at the visual feast which follows.

Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons: Scenes from the Grand Circle

Yosemite: The Cycle of the Seasons is a magnificent collection of photographs which celebrate the beauty of this majestic landscape. Each of the four seasonal portfolios present the Park in all its glory; from the world famous landmarks to the subtlety of intimate details. In addition to the work of many of America's finest landscape photographers it also provides the reader with evocative poetic texts which accompany the seasonal portfolios and an excellent essay which will provide the reader with an overview of the Park's natural history. This newly revised edition of Yosemite: The Cycle of Seasons is part of Sierra Press' award winning Wish You Were Here Book Series. Each title in this series provides enticing suggestions of what first-time visitors may expect to experience and vivid memories to those who have already visited the Park.

Yosemite: The Cycle of the Seasons (Wish You Were Here Series)

Zion National Park has been preserved as a place to observe the interaction and succession of a physical environment and the plants and animals living there with minimum impact from mankind. It is up to each of us to invest the time and effort to discover and enjoy that which makes this region so special.

Zion (Postcard Books)

It is probably safe to assume that the first white visitors to Death Valley were not overly impressed by their introduction to this portion of western Nevada and eastern California. Horrified is probably more accurate. This group of emigrants, following what they believed to be a shortcut to the goldfields of California, must surely have stood in awe when they arrived at the mouth of Furnace Creek Wash on Christmas Day, 1849. Before them lay not what they so desperately needed-a green, water-fed valley that world provide forage for their oxen and meat for the cook pot; instead, they saw a sight quite unlike anything they had seen before. A vast depression lay before them, stretching to the north and south as far as the eye could see, and bounded on the west by a great mountain range (the Panamints) rising more than two vertical miles above the valley floor. In the bottom of the valley lay not the cottonwood-lined river or willow-bordered lake they hoped for, but rather, a great expanse of salt and mud and sand. Having already traversed hundreds of miles of desert in western Nevada, they had little idea of just where they were. They believed the sleepy village of Los Angeles must surely lie just beyond the next mountain range. In truth, they were still at least 150 miles northeast of there (as the raven flies). The green, spring-fed meadows of Las Vegas, which would have provided the water and forage they needed, lay roughly 100 miles east of them. This group of 49ers (as they are now known) had unwittingly discovered the hottest, driest, and lowest place on the North American continent. (excerpt from introduction)

Death Valley National Monument was established in 1933 by President Herbert Hoover's presidential proclamation to conserve the scenery and the natural and historical objects therein. Encompassing 1.7 million acres, it was then the second largest unit in the National Park System. On October 31, 1994, an additional 1.3 million acres were added, and then the national park status was bestowed when President Bill Clinton signed the Desert Protection Act. Death Valley is now the largest National Park in the lower 48 states. Included in the new acreage are seven new ecosystems, there significant mountain ranges, additional habitat for a number of endemic and endangered species, and there vast desert valleys. Dimensions: 7.8 x 7.8

This Is Death Valley

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