| Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys Into the Heart of the Southern Plains Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Flores, Dan L. (Author), Proulx, Annie (Foreword by), Dunlap, Thomas R. (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1603441808 ISBN-13: 9781603441803 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Plains & Prairies - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
| Dewey: 979 |
| LCCN: 2009028757 |
| Series: Environmental History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.2" W x 10.2" (1.65 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty years ago, Dan Flores's Caprock Canyonlands became one of the first books ever to treat the flat, arid landscape of the southern High Plains as a place of uncommon beauty and enduring spirit. Now a classic, Caprock Canyonlands has been favorably compared by readers to the work of such icons of nature and environmental writing as William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau. Containing the author's stunning photography, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, author of "Brokeback Mountain," an afterword by environmental historian Thomas R. Dunlap, and a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition makes available to a new generation of readers Flores's knowledgeable and heartfelt narrative of the canyons and badlands of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma and Texas. He evokes the history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history, and literature. "Caprock Canoynlands keeps its place on our bookshelves . . . for its exploration of a deeply human activity: the search for the beauty of the earth, the depth and strength of our ties to it, and the ways those appear in a particular landscape . . . here illuminated by love."--from the afterword by Thomas R. Dunlap |