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An intriguing glimpse into the souls of four men on a quest.Lyrical prose with imagery that will haunt me forever. Beautiful, insightful, funny. Contains a few very fine photographs whose detail and clarity are amazing.

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Four best friends journey into the Northern California wilderness from separate starting points, with a promise to meet up with each other at a certain point.Armed with their maps, each of the four records their trials, self-discoveries, wonderments and thoughts along the way in this intensely personal account of their journeys.

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Utah on My Mind celebrates all that is unique about theBeehive State--its diverse landscape, cities, wildlife, andpeople. Featured in the pages of this book are more than 160full-color images by such talented Utah photographers as ScottT. Smith, Tom Till, Jack Dykinga, and Howie Garber. Augmenting thephotos are eloquent observations of writers who have known and lovedthis place, including Wallace Stegner, Bernard De Voto, Edward Abbey,and Terry Tempest Williams. Together they comprise a memorable journeyfrom the Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake to the arches andspires of the canyon lands--a journey you will want to make again andagain. ... Read more

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Best Utah Book
I buy this book over and over to give out of state/country visitors. Gorgeous photography. Really shows off what a beautiful state Utah is. I've bought other books as they've come out but always go back to "Utah on my mind".

A Sensual Exploration of Utah's Beauty and Grandure
Highly recommended. As I first began to leaf through the glorous pages of Utah On My Mind I was struck with the beauty of the state.The varigated landscape, the deep greens, the canyon reds, and the brilliant whites allcame together like the mixed and mingled hues of a navajo rug. The bookitself provided me with a hightened sense of respect and awe for the greatstate that is. . . UTAH! ... Read more

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Introduction by John Nichols. Afterword by Edward Abbey. pp. 228. Black and white illustrations. Collection of letters and biographical information about the artist who disappeared in the Utah desert in 1934 at the age of 21. Ruess traded prints with Ansel Adams and lived for a time with Maynard Dixon and his wife Dorothea Lange. ... Read more

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A Unique Individual
Please try to buy the hard cover copy of this book, as it will contain a treasure trove of pictures of the days when one young man, Everett Ruess, wandered first through parts of California, and later throughout Utah, Colorado, and Arizona in the early 1930s.Everett Ruess came from a comfortable California family who loved nature.He began his first foray into the California wildernesses when he was 16.On his way, he wrote his journals and lots of letters to his friends and family.He was an artist and a poet.His wood cuts are classic and stand the test of time.Restless after he returned home, he set out again, fearlessly wandering across the mountains and desert of the southwest.He rode a horse or a burro, often with his dog, Curly, by his side.He sometimes had a couple of burros.He sometimes stopped for a while and worked at a ranch or something similar, but in time, the wanderlust caught him again.

In 1934, he took his last trip and until this year, seemed to have disappeared into the ether.There was a lot of speculation, but nothing panned out.I am among the countless others that have fallen under the spell of his mysterious young man.This year, (2009) the National Geographic Adventurer magazine broke the story that Everett Ruess' bones had finally been found.Scientific work proved it to be more than speculation.The news appeared on the front page of our Phoenix paper in May of this year.He was apparently murdered in a remote area beyond Lees Ferry, which is located in northern Arizona.I'll leave you to find out the rest of the story.

Everett Ruess is surely deceased, but his spirit will endure and excite the minds of the readers for generations to come.He was a true "Vagabond for Beauty." ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Title: The ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey.(Critical essay)
Author: Michael D. Yates
Publication: Monthly Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 56Issue: 10Page: 20(13)

Article Type: Critical essay

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Balanced Rock, Edward Abbey, Arches National Park, Wolfe Ranch, Desert Solitaire, Wall Arch, Double Arch, Devil's Garden, Petrified Dunes, Courthouse Towers, Fiery Furnace. Excerpt:Arches National Park Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah . It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches , including the world-famous Delicate Arch , in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations. The park is located just outside of Moab, Utah , and is 119 square miles (310 km ) in size. Its highest elevation is 5,653 feet (1,723 m) at Elephant Butte, and its lowest elevation is 4,085 feet (1,245 m) at the visitor center . Since 1970, forty-three arches have toppled because of erosion . The park receives 10 inches (250 mm) of rain a year on average. The area, administered by the National Park Service , was originally designated as a national monument on April 12, 1929. It was redesignated a national park on November 12, 1971. Geology Map of Arches National Park The Organ is an impressive "sandstone fin" The national park lies atop an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths in the area. This salt bed is thousands of feet thick in places, and was deposited in the Paradox Basin of the Colorado Plateau some 300 million years ago when a sea flowed into the region and eventually evaporated. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic (about 210 Ma) desert conditions prevailed in the region and the vast Navajo Sandstone was deposited. An additional sequence of stream laid and windblown sediments, the ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Murray Bookchin, John Moore, Theodore Kaczynski, Brad Will, Edward Abbey, Rod Coronado, Derrick Jensen, Élisée Reclus, Chellis Glendinning, Priya Reddy, Simon Oosterman, Alan Carter, Jeff Monaghan, Jeff Luers, Starhawk, Marco Camenisch, Richard Sylvan, Darren Thurston, David Watson, Ann Hansen, Richard Hunt, Emile Gravelle, Henri Zisly. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 132. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski (pronounced ; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber), is an American mathematician and social critic, who carried out a campaign of mail bombing spree that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where, as an intellectual child prodigy, he excelled academically from an early age. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree, and later earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley at age 25 but resigned two years later. In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water, in Lincoln, Montana, where he began to learn survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient and where he lived like a recluse. He decided to start a bombing campaign after watching the wilderness around his home being destroyed by development. From 1978 to 1995, Kaczynski sent 16 bombs to targets including universities and airlines, killing three people and injuring 23. Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto. In his Industrial Society and Its Future (also called the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18621887 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Wordsworth Circle, published by Wordsworth Circle on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4603 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gender fluidity and nature writing: William Wordsworth and Edward Abbey.
Author: James Holt McGavran
Publication: Wordsworth Circle (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Wordsworth Circle
Volume: 33Issue: 1Page: 47(6)

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