A celebration-in words and pictures-of one of the most beautiful areas of the United States: the Taos Valley of northern New Mexico. This eloquent, moving, and often funny book is his account of exactly how his life has been transformed by daily, intimate contact with this extraordinary landscape-at once hostile and nurturing-and by his growing sense of responsibility toward the land and the people who live there. Nichols writes with wry amusement about the joys and tribulations of living in an adobe farmhouse that is always at the mercy of nature. He is rapturous about the pleasures of trout fishing in mountain streams and graphic about the difficulties of maintaining a primitive, but vital irrigation system. But he is most passionate about his farmer neighbors and thier continuing struggle to prtect a rewarding way of life and a precariously balanced ecological system that are both increasingly threatened by overcrowding and human greed. To complement Nichols's deeply felt text, William Davis has provided sixty-five color photographs that dramatically capture the variety and intensity of this astonishing land-mountain and mesa, forest and desert, river and farmland-in all its seasons and moods. The result is a lyric tribute to one of the last truly wild areas of the United States.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9780393311594
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95458647
Product Key Features
Book Title
IF Mountains Die: a New Mexico Memoir
Author
John Nichols
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mental Health
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Sports
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
257mm
Item Weight
607g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Nichols
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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