Stone Time, Southern Utah: A Portrait & A Meditation [Hardcover]

T. H. Watkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994

Renowned wilderness writer T H Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyonlands of Utah. He gives us a panorama of majestic mountains, buttes, and mesas; forest views of pinon an djuniper and tall mountains sage; and intimate glimpses of rivers weaving through red slits in the earth. Through Watkins's exquisite visual and literary images shines his deep commitment to saving treasured wildlands that were old when humankind was 'yet ungraced by the breath of creation'.

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From Publishers Weekly

The wildlands of southern Utah are a wonderland whose canyons, rock stacks, majestic buttes and mesas arguably rival the Grand Canyon in beauty. This region, endangered by mineral, timber and cattle interests, boasts a bewildering diversity of vegetation and wildlife. In this engaging photo-essay, noted historian Watkins (The Great Depression), editor of Wilderness magazine, gracefully evokes his excursions through a realm where ``stone and sky and water speak the language of memory.'' His black-and-white photography recreates the mystery and poetry of a region that, according to this eloquent brief, deserves federal protection as a designated wilderness.

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About the Author

T H Watkins

Product Details

• Hardcover: 104 pages
• Publisher: Clear Light Pub; 1st edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940666537
• ISBN-13: 978-0940666535
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #828,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In tradition of activist- Edward Abbey---, May 9, 1999

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This review is from: Stone Time, Southern Utah: A Portrait & A Meditation (Hardcover)

Thanks to enviromental work featured by Watkins,Utah hasForthcoming new title- added a vast million acres+ wilderness area. watch for his "Red Rock Chronicles" coming by 2000.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Majestic Landscape Such as This Deserves to Be in Color, December 7, 2004

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This review is from: Stone Time, Southern Utah: A Portrait & A Meditation (Hardcover)

Black and white photography is artistic, but doesn't do this area of the country justice.

Also, I appreciate the author's concern for preserving the land, but government protection could quite possibly be the WORST way to do it because it brings in bus loads of the very people who will damage it. Just admire it from a book or ignore it.