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

Wind in the Rock

History

Zwinger, Ann

Americas

Harpercollins

Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra

Land Above the Trees is the classic guide to the alpine tundra in the United States. No other book has ever looked so closely, so thoroughly, and so charmingly at this important and fragile ecological zone.

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Traverses the seven-hundred-thirty-mile Green River of Wyoming and Utah, describing the river itself and the plant and animal life, geology, and history of the region through which it flows

Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Describes the plants, animals, history, countryside, shorelines, and sea life of Baja California

A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California

The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment. These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are "a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is a promise of spring, and in spring the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds, the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard … here part of each season is contained in every other." In beautiful and simple language and with 80 illustrations, "Beyond the Aspen Grove" tells of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world. "Ann Swinger’s "Beyond the Aspen Grove" takes us to the Montane Zone of Colorado (7,000 to 9,000 feet) to walk her land with her, to savor the immense variety of life to be found there, above and below ground, in its streams, meadows, under the surface of a lake and among its groves of aspen and Ponderosa pine. The book is a compendium of information, packed densely with meat like a rich nut … [a] work of love that is also a work of science and a work of art." —May Sarton in "The New York Times Book Review"

Beyond the Aspen Grove (Harper Nature Library)

HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS

Land Above the Trees is the classic guide to the alpine tundra in the United States. No other book has ever looked so closely, so thoroughly, and so charmingly at this important and fragile ecological zone.

Willard, Beatrice E.

Perennial

Yosemite: Valley Of Thunder by Zwinger, Ann

Yosemite: Valley of Thunder (Genesis Series)

Travel

Cook, Kathleen, Norris

United States

Collins Pub San Francisco

Essays and photographs explore modern women as they discover the beauty and power of the natural world and make a place for themselves in it

Women in Wilderness: Writings and Photographs (The Wilderness Experience)

Zwinger, Susan

Harvest Books

Beyond the Aspen Grove

Random House]

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Wind in the Rock

Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra

Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West

A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California

Beyond the Aspen Grove (Harper Nature Library)

Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra

Yosemite: Valley of Thunder (Genesis Series)

Yosemite: Valley of Thunder (Genesis Series)

Women in Wilderness: Writings and Photographs (The Wilderness Experience)

Beyond the Aspen Grove