Wild & Scenic Indiana (Wild & Scenic) [Hardcover]

Scott Russell Sanders (Author), Rich Clark (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wild & Scenic | Publication Date: June 2005

Environmental writer, Scott Russell Sanders, and nature photographer, Rich Clark, take the reader on a systematic tour of natural and rural Indiana. All 26 of Indiana's landscape provinces are described in separate chapters, illustrated with 240 exhibit-format color photographs and keyed to 28 color maps. Sanders' text surveys the landscape of Indiana in terms of the interaction of geography, history, and environmental awareness.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"240 stunning landscapes splashed across 168 pages and divided into 26 landscape types defined by the Indiana Geological Survey." -- Indiana Business (October/November 2005)

"A glorious view of Indiana." -- The Indianapolis Star (August 14 2005)

About the Author

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS is an English professor at Indiana University, where he has taught since taking his doctorate at Cambridge University. Author of eighteen books, he has received many literary awards, including the Lannan Literary Award for his nonfiction, the Kenyon Review Award for fiction, and the Great Lakes Book Award. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim, Lilly Endowment, and Indiana Arts Commission fellowships. He has served as an editor on The Cambridge Review, The Minnesota Review, Audubon, and Orion, and as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He has served on the advisory board of south-central Indiana’s Sycamore Land Trust, and on national advisory boards for the Orion Society and the Trust for Public Land. Sanders’ previous photographic books on Indiana include "Stone Country" and "Bloomington Past & Present". Son of a Mississippi cotton farmer, he lives in Bloomington.

RICH CLARK is a versatile photographer whose métiers include wildlife, landscape, architecture, and photo essay. After studying biology at Colorado State University and photography at Colorado Mountain College, Clark embarked on field campaigns to photograph golden eagles and kingfishers in the Rockies and gyrfalcons in Iceland. Clark's photo essays have documented the journeys of migrant workers in Mexico, family life in Punjab, and white-water rafting in Nepal. His work has been published in many books and magazines, including Audubon, Natural History, Time, and Newsweek. A winner of the Nikon Photo Contest International, Clark teaches workshops and leads photo safaris in his home state of Indiana. He has long been sole photographer of BrownTrout's Wild & Scenic Indiana calendar. He lives in Indianapolis.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: Browntrout Publishers (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763184640
• ISBN-13: 978-0763184643
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 12.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,419,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Indiana

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5.0 out of 5 stars 240 Beautiful, beautiful pictures, July 7, 2009

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This review is from: Wild & Scenic Indiana (Wild & Scenic) (Hardcover)

With an introduction by Scott Russell Sanders ("This Piece of the Earth We Call Indiana") "Wild & Scenic Indiana" is a beautiful collection of more than 240 pictures of all parts of (mostly) rural Indiana taken by professional photographer Rich Clark.

Clark moved to Indiana from Colorado and, as he puts it, has "ceased to be amazed at how alluringly beautiful my chosen state is." (pg. 7) Clark has mastered capturing what he calls "Indiana's demure beauty" (pg. 7) and he proudly shows them off on the oversized 12 in X 12 in full color pages.

The book is broken up into chapters based on the physiographic map of Indiana. This means it is based on the major geographical zones of the state. It is an odd way to organize the book, but it does have a certain sense of logic to it.

This is a beautiful coffee table book, one that any Hoosier would be pleased to flip through.