description: Heart of the Desert Wild combines naturalist writer Greer K. Chesher's thought provoking prose with photographer Liz Hymans' spectacular panoramic images to evoke the wonder of Grand Staircase-Escalante. Beginning with the land's rocky past and combing through the woven layers of place - native grasses and bighorn sheep, the sound of moving waters and the people drawn to them, strange soils and rare plants - the book provides an integrated geography of what anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn once called the "last Holy Place."Sadly, as of Dec. 2017, the publisher has decided to allow this book to go out of print.
language: English
title: Heart of the Desert Wild
titlecomplete: Heart of the Desert Wild
ratings_count: 6
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Utah Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Bryce Canyon Natural History Assn