Jeremy Schmidt

Suggests the best seasons and places for such outdoor activities as hiking and backpacking, skiing, canoeing, bicycling, camping, car touring and picnicking, ballooning, and wildlife viewing; popular cultural events such as rodeos, and music and film festivals; natural and human history, climate, geology, and wildlife; transportation in and around the Rockies, including suggestions for maps and backcountry gear.

Adventuring in the Rockies

The 2,000-mile Rocky Mountain region--including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks and other sites--draws 50 million visitors annually to its world-famed attractions. This comprehensive guide profiles the region's panorama of outdoor activities and examines specific parks, wilderness areas, wild rivers, trails and campgrounds, lodging, and more. Photographs. Maps.

The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Rocky Mountain Regions of Canada and the U.S.A.

Thomas Schmidt

A richly illustrated account of the expedition of Lewis and Clark from Missouri, through vast uncharted territories, to Oregon, encompasses excerpts from personal diaries, annotated sketches of local wildlife, artifacts, running maps, and other archival material.

Into the Uncharted West

The Saga of Lewis & Clark

Perhaps our most spectacular park, the Grand Canyon draws over four million visitors a year. In the first series that focuses on the natural history of the individual parks, each volume describes and lists each park's characteristic animals, plants, ecosystems, and geological formations. 90 photos, 45 in color. 15 maps.

A Natural History Guide

Grand Canyon

* Winner of the first Barbara Savage Memorial Award * Stunning color photos of the journey * Look into the heart of the top of the world This is the story of two young couples who embarked on a free-form journey through Tibet, Nepal, China, India and Pakistan. Their goal: to circumnavigate the Himalayas by bike, foot, truck by any means necessary, the slope of the world's greatest mountain range their only guide. Along the way they experienced a region steeped in ancient tradition but permanently altered by its confrontation with the 20th century; they discovered all that is exotic and mundane, funny and tragic, and beautiful and brutal about this vast territory. Jeremy Schmidt's humorous, evocative narrative recounts bureaucrats, knife-wielding Khampas, lamas-in-training, and mystics of every stripe. With stunning photographs by Patrick Morrow, Himalayan Passage reveals a place imbued with meaning and reality far beyond anything in the world below: the mysterious, turbulent Himalayas, the gates to God. Also available in hardcover.

Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan

Himalayan Passage

"Sanctuary Lost tells the story of how wildlife refuges, once inviolate safe zones for animals, became the nation's prime hunting grounds; and corrects the inaccurate claims of hunters that they were the first conservationists and are still the major supporters of wildlife in America."--Back cover.

Sanctuary Lost: How Wildlife Refuges Became Hunting Grounds

A richly illustrated account of the expedition of Lewis and Clark from Missouri, through vast uncharted territories, to Oregon, encompasses excerpts from personal diaries, annotated sketches of local wildlife, artifacts, running maps, and other archival material. Reprint.

This book furthers our understanding of the issue of melancholy in early modern culture by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have receive

Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England

Melancholy and the Care of the Soul

Katherine Ashenburg

Alison Kahn

Offers over twenty driving tours focusing on different parts of Canada, and provides information on museums, parks, and historical sites

National Geographic's Driving Guides to America Canada

Art Tomey

Pat Morrow

A stunning book of retro, mind-bending photography that unlocks a hidden world of natural wonder, personal reflection and outdoor adventure. More than 40 years ago, British Columbia photographer Art Twomey stumbled across a narrow crack in the desert floor in northern Arizona. It was a slot canyon, a stone crevasse - narrow, carved by water, its interior lost in shadow when seen by a curious person peering in from the rim. Twomey's photos from that day were unlike anything he had ever put on emulsion. They pictured a dream world, an intricate underground fantasy where lines bent, topsy met turvy, upside was down, inside was out. The images made as much sense backwards as forwards, which is to say they made no sense at all. For over a decade, Twomey, Morrow and Schmidt spent spring and fall seasons hauling their cameras through the wildest, most intricately carved slot canyons they could find. At the time, slots were virtually unknown, their exquisite beauties not yet appreciated. There were no guidebooks, no guided tours, no high-resolution satellite images to work from. A big part of the pleasure was a sense of discovery, of finding places no one knew.

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