Author Name: Crampton, C. Gregory
Title: Land of Living Rock: the Grand Canyon and the High Plateaus: Arizona, Utah, Nevada
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: NY Alfred A. Knopf 1972
ISBN Number: 0394426959 / 9780394426952
Illustrator: Illustrated by Kitchen, John M.
Seller ID: 14568
273 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Large, heavy, coffee table size book. Two-tone brown cloth boards with bright gilt lettering. Beautiful Grand Canyon endpapers in color. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny, thin scrape at top of spine. Price written inside front flap, under original price. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! America's most magnificent national wonder is here given a biography worthy of its grandeur. Gregory Crampton's multi-dimentional portrait - geological, historical, scenic, informed with the ecologist's view of man and nature, and beautifully illustrated - brings into focus the wonders not only of the Grand Canyon itself, but also of the high plateaus to the north that include both Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. Illustrated with 16 color and 105 black & white photographs, and 17maps.
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