Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1828664 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Customer Reviews

4.5 stars for wonderful color photos
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This is one of the "Story Behind the Scenery" booklets, of about the size and heft of an"Arizona Highways"magazine, that are ubiquitous at national-park visitor centers and souvenir shops. I've always kinda looked down my nose at them ("booklike objects for tourists" -- I know, hopeless snobbery), but the wonderful cover photo caught my eye at the libe TOD....

LANDFORMS is definitely worth a look for redrock rats & aspiring landscape photographers (in addition to the intended impulse-purchasers). Ladd's photos are truly stunning, and beautifully reproduced. The text is a decent Plateau geology-primer, though it's old-hat for me, and I must confess I just skimmed it. But the photos are wonderful. A minor cavil -- locations for many photos aren't given, or are too vague to help you find the site pictured.

So -- keep an eye out for LANDFORMS, while you're waiting for the wife-and-kiddies at the Mt. Trashmore restrooms. You might just end up buying a copy.

Happy reading--
Peter D. Tillman
Consulting Geologist, Tucson & Santa Fe (USA)

Rating: "A-" -- gorgeous color photos of the red-rock countr
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