Text, accompanied by more than 120 color photographs, discusses twenty-five national parks.

Presents Muench's beautiful photos of the petroglyphs and pictographs chipped, chiseled, and painted in prehistoric and historic times onto boulders and rock walls in the Southwest and in California, Baja California, and the Columbia River gorge. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma provides an introductory essay and commentary on the background of the people who created the rock art and the world they inhabited.

Includes index

"Wild America : A personal celebration of the National Parks. Wild America brings together David Muench, the eminent wilderness photographer, with Roly Smith, the respected travel writer. This book celebrates their personal selection of America's National Parks and protected areas. Its publication marks the centenary of the 'Organic Act', the federal law that established the world's first National Park Service. Share their personal experiences,...

Welcome to Monument Valley Tribal Park, a world of weather-carved rock and wind-driven sand, of massive buttes painted with dark desert varnish, of hardy plants clinging to the earth. At dawn and sunset, an ever-changing sky silhouettes the dark-looming monuments against washes of color from delicate to vibrant. Monument Valley's Navajo residents live in harmony with this challenging, beautiful landscape. Dynamic forces of earth, wind, and water built...

Includes 125 full-color photographs of the changing landscape of Colorado.