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The High Sierra of California

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This book is stunning the woodblock prints are so beautiful they almost make you cry. We spend a lot of time in the sierras and this book shows the beauty of these mountains better than any photographs. Get the book
look at the pictures then do your family a favor and go spend time in these incredible mountains.

I have been savoring this book since I got it. Some years ago I saw Tom Killion's prints at a small gallery in Carson City, NV and they are well reproduced here. The text is quite interesting too and the prints and stories work together beautifully to capture the spirit of this most magnificent place.

Killion's woodcut-style captures the feeling of standing in the place. I have visited many of the landscapes he depicts, and seeing his renderings is like returning there for a moment and seeing it fresh.

This book captures the spirit of the Sierra high country. Beautiful woodblock prints in the Japanese style mixed with poetic text.

Those who have experienced California's High Sierra know that it is near impossible to capture the adventure in any meaningful way. Snyder and Killion come close, joining Japanese inspired printmaking, essay and poetry to emote the natural wonder of the mountain range in a volune worthy of repeated fireside review on the days when a hike is not possible. The well trained and passionate explorers share a fresh view of famous vistas.

This book is absolutely gorgeous. The woodcut prints by Tom Killion are exquisite, and poetic diary entries by Gary Snyder interspersed by quotes from John Muir create a lyrical picture of the High Sierra.

hop up and down in your Teva sandals. Wade the great streams as they roar over round stones down from ancient peaks... dance the silver dance of the wild rainbow... but find a place in your ultralight backpack for this book. It deserves a place next to that bag of peanuts, your titanium cup; worth its weight in gold dust from the river, split pea soup from the pouch. Ancient shaman tales and woodcut journeys... yamabushi of the mind, and lots of white space for taking your own cryptic outerspace trailnotes...