An unprecedented collection of photographs celebrating one of America's great treasures, now available in a midsize format. Straddling the borders of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico is a magnificent wilderness known as the Colorado Plateau. Encompassing more than 130,000 square miles, this spectacular tableland of rock, canyon, and desert covers the greatest concentration of national parks--ten, including Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, and Grand Canyon--national monuments, state parks, wilderness areas, ...
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An unprecedented collection of photographs celebrating one of America's great treasures, now available in a midsize format. Straddling the borders of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico is a magnificent wilderness known as the Colorado Plateau. Encompassing more than 130,000 square miles, this spectacular tableland of rock, canyon, and desert covers the greatest concentration of national parks--ten, including Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, and Grand Canyon--national monuments, state parks, wilderness areas, Bureau of Land Management holdings, and Native American tribal lands in America. Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest presents more than 200 photographs accompanied by quotations from authors, travelers, and nature enthusiasts. Featuring the most extraordinary collection of multicolored landforms found anywhere on earth, this remarkable assemblage of geologic diversity and spectacular beauty attracts more than ten million visitors annually. Jon Ortner's photographs reflect the power and stunning beauty of these incomparable monuments, presenting a wonderland of colored stone.
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