Inspired by long walks and extended backcountry trips on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Mary Peck's contemplative photographs evoke the stillness and balance one can find by slowing down and simply paying attention. Neither idealized nor nostalgic, Peck's photographs point toward beauty and hope in a landscape that has suffered its share of environmental indignities, yet still carries the powerful mystery of wildness into an uncertain future. Charles Wilkinson's illuminating essay traces historical attitudes toward land and water in the American West, and reflects on the now-outmoded laws that have governed development for nearly two centuries. With the impending removal of two dams, erected on the Elwha River almost one hundred years ago, wild salmon, long prevented from reaching upstream spawning areas, are about to return and restore their ancient runs on one of the most diverse and productive streams in the country. Images and text afford us glimpses of the primeval power that still lingers in this wild place. Peck’s meditations on the roadless ocean beaches, the emerald river valleys with their old-growth temperate rain forests, and the denuded hillsides urge the reader to acknowledge the less tangible values we must consider in managing our natural resources.

Away Out Over Everything: The Olympic Peninsula and the Elwha River

Arts & Photography

Peck, Mary

Photography & Video

Stanford General Books

Away Out Over Everything: The Olympic Peninsula And The Elwha River

Wilkinson, Charles F.

Stanford Univ Pr

This book follows the pottery-making traditions from the earliest utility wares of the Mogollon and Anasazi Indians to the artistically superb pottery made by contemporary Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande Valley. The 175 pieces features trace the long development - over 1800 years - of Pueblo Indian pottery while highlighting some of its more remarkable moments.

From This Earth: The Ancient Art of Pueblo Pottery

Peckham, Stewart

History & Criticism

Museum of New Mexico Pr

Book by Peck, Mary, Stein, John R., Ortiz, Simon J., Lekson, Stephen H.

Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World

ORTIZ, Simon J.

Lekson, Stephen H.

Stein, John R.

Book by Lekson, Stephen, Stein, John R., Ortiz, Simon J.

The bitter with the sweet: New Brunswick, 1604-1984

Four East Publications

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