Sierra Club1968

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In the Fall of 1968 the Sierra Club WillProudly Present the First in its Excitingnew International Series,Devoted toThe Earth's Wild Places . . .GALAPAGOS : _■_. Flow of wudm

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For more than two years now a happening has beengoing on in Central Park that few New Yorkers know about. Two girlsand their cameras have been exploring, finding, and revealing thespecial beauty that has been created in a place and in the people whoseek it out, and their sister-in-law, an impressionist with words,

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Photographs by Eliot PorterForeword by David BrowerEdited by Kenneth Brower

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k!/|f'0 >I^| "Baja California is a wonderful exampleof how much bad roads can doV| > in, ' for a country. Nature gaveto Baja California nearly all of the beautiespossible in a dry,

warm climate—towering mountains, flowery desert

flats,

blue water, bird-rich islands,and scores of great, curving beaches as fine as the best anywhere in the world. All ofthis has remained very nearly inviolate just because very little of what we call progresshas marred it. Baja has never needed protection because the land protects itself.''Joseph Wood Krutch in his Introduction to BAJA CALIFORNIA And the GeographyofHope.

But the 20th century will soon be catching up with traveler's record of Baja, they are works of art which recordBaja California. Right now a blacktop road penetrates the an individual artist's special vision. Looked at from one pointpeninsula for only 128 miles to San Felipe. The remaining of view, they areprimarily mood and pattern pictures. In thisnearly 800 miles of Baja is accessible only by very rough respect they belong in the finest tradition of modern art. Butroads—the further South you travel the rougher the road. And they are fundamentally different from pure abstractions be-as Mr. Krutch points out, "Bad roads act as filters. They sepa- cause the moods are generated by external nature and the pat-rate those who are sufficiently appreciativeof what lies beyond terns are those discovered in nature, not purely human in-die blacktop to be willing to undergomild inconvenience from ventions. Porter's is an art which reasserts the old convictionthat much larger number of travelers which is not willing. The that nature is the source of all beauty and the sole inspirationrougher the road, the finer the filter." of art.

However, the time is fast approaching when the "The sense that nature is the most beautiful of allMexican government will have to decide whether to halt cer- spectacles and something of which man is a part; that she istain kinds of exploitation or let them destroy things which, a sourceof health and joy which inevitablydries up when manonce lost, can never by recovered. is alienated from her; these are the ultimate reasons why it

To illustrate the beauty of this land—its strange and seems to us desperately important that the works of naturefascinating landscape with giant cardon cactus and contorted should not disappear to be replaced by the works of manelephant trees, its tropical brilliance—Eliot Porter is the ideal alone."photographer. Again to quote Mr. Krutch: "Eliot Porter's #17 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

160 pages with 72 colorphotographs, for all their detail and realism, are not just a plates

$25.00

BAY The Land and the SilenceGLACIERPhotographs and text by Dave Bohn. Foreword by L. J. Mitchell. Edited by David Brower.

"Every now and then a man steps onto a trate the text. They were all taken for themselves,landscape and stubs his toe, violently, on the won- Nor was the text written for the photographs. Butder of it all. Not all people can share such wonder when the elements are brought together, the Gla-or willwant to. But Dave Bohn fortunately wanted cier Bay country comes through — a combinationto and could, and has brought back alive the awe- of man, camera, notebook, and empathy that is notsome landscape that Glacier Bay National Monu- going to happen again soon." — David Brower inment is. His is an extraordinary one-man show, in the Preface to Glacier Bay.which the photographer also selects the cast anddirects the play. The photographs ■— five years of No single adjective or phrase can do justicethem, from a tent, in the snow and the gales and to this huge land. With the publication of Glacierfloating ice, that meant numb

feet,

frigid hands, Bay: The Land and the

Silence,

the Sierra Club at-sometimes-wet cameras — were not made to illus- tempts to come as close as possible.

#16 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

83 photographs, 16 in color $25.00

BAJA CALIFORNIA

Text selected from the writings ofJoseph Wood Krutch

K_ AUAl and the Park Country of Hawaii~ Text and Photographs by Robert Wenkam. Edited byKenneth Brower.

Pg^ Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii has didly free of billboards and telephone wires, overWV. _PI long deserved inclusion in the Sierra Club's Exhibit to the windward side of that island and out to the

JJM Format Series of books. Its deep green canyons, road's end at Na Pali, to feel the sea wind thereT vf^k

waterfalls,

pounding surf and jagged mountains are and be amazed at the surf. With the car safely be-\\ T perfectly photogenic subjects for a book on the hind, we walked the first part of what must surely

waterfalls,

pounding surf and jagged mountains are and be amazed at the surf. With the car safely be-perfectly photogenic subjects for a book on the hind, we walked the first part of what must surely

'.^t \ I beauty of its wilderness. be one of the most spectacular trails on earth."nS V In his

foreword,

David Brower, ExecutiveI S«y Director of the Sierra

Club,

tells of his trip with In 72 color plates Robert Wenkam catch*VHn ''JjS I the author to Kauai: "Here we glimpsed the mag- as well as the finest photography can, the beauty

''d^^Blf nificence of what a Kauai National Park could en- this superb scenic area. The text captures muchcompass. We drove along a scenic highway, splen- the dramatic history of the land itself.

Director of the Sierra

Club,

tells of his trip with In 72 color plates Robert Wenkam catches,the author to Kauai: "Here we glimpsed the mag- as well as the finest photography can, the beauty ofnificence of what a Kauai National Park could en- this superb scenic area. The text captures much of

#15 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

72 color photographs

$25.00

NAVAJO WILDLANDS As Long As the Rivers Shall RunPhotographs by Philip Hyde. Text by Stephen C. Jett.

The Navajo tribal lands are spread over a fate similar to that which befell Glen Canyon.some of America's most striking wilderness areas. The life-blood of the land — the still-living andThe landscape in the Southwest is hardly believ- free-flowing rivers, the rivers that should run for-able. In Navajo Wildlands Philip Hyde presents a ever — may be shut off by dams. In an attempt tocamera portrait of this complex area that has long preserve their lands, the Navajos created a Tribalfascinated man. In 72 color photographs Mr. Hyde Park Commission to help identify areas of sceniccaptures the gothic mood of this wilderness and its importance and to strive for their incorporationbasic element — stone. For although at times it into a Navajo Park.may be thinly veneered with sandy soil or some- This was but the first step in solving thewhat disguised by sparse struggling shrubs, stone is problems of preserving this area. With the finestdominant in this land. With Navajo Wildlands

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text and photographs we could find, the Sierracan return again and again to the strange fascina- Club tries to describe as vividly as possible the cru-tion of the sculptured formations of stone which cial problems that still lie ahead — problems thattower over the vast barrenness. involve all America for on their solution depends

But this majestic land is now threatened by the future of this great natural heritage.

#14 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

72 color photographs $25.00

SUMMER ISLAND: Penobscot Country

Eliot Porter. Foreword by Carl Buchheister. Edited by David Brower.-TT--2

One of America'smost renowned color pho- been a classic vacationland. Many thousands oftographers, for half a century a summerresident of Americans will discover in these photographs the

_____!Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, shares beauty that is the reason for this

fame;

many thou-his years of discovering the beauty of the Maine sands more will rediscover its charm. Hopefully allcoast. Mr. Porter's photographs in his two previous will re-experience the irreplaceable values to beExhibit Format books have made book history. His gained from knowledge of such places, and out ofgenius is here focused on the water, rocks,

forests,

this experience draw inspiration for the ways toand wildlife in a region that for generations has preserve them.Mill""'

#1 3 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

200 pages, 48 color, 48 varnished gravure $25.00

EVEREST: The West RidgeBy Dr. Thomas Hornbein, photographed by the American Mount Everest Expedition and itsleader, Norman Dyhrenfurth. Foreword by Dr. William E. Siri. Edited by David Brower.

". . . quite simply the most glorious book of graver have made the perfect marriage. Perfection

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color photographs one can ever hope to see. Here at last!"at last the treasure chest has been thrown wide The above direct quote is what the Newopen. It is a big book, and the color has air to York Times Book Review said about this movingbreathe in. The mountain air pours through these story, told first-hand by the man who accepted thephotographs and the most subtle colors are ren- challenge of Everest's West Ridge. Here is all thedered with fidelity. The photographer and the en- excitement of the incredible traverse and the long-

est night.

#12 in the Exhibit Format Series, 200 pages, 90 color photographs $25.00

long deserved inclusion in the Sierra Club's Exhibit to the windward side of that island and out to theFormat Series of books. Its deep green canyons, road's end at Na Pali, to feel the sea wind there

And the Geography of HopeIn his foreword, David Brower, Executive

compass. We drove along a scenic highway, splen- the dramatic history of the land itself.

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THE WILD CASCADES: Forgotten Parkland ANSEL ADAMS I: The Eloquent LightBy Nancy Newhall. Edited by David Brower.By Harvey Manning with lines from Theodore Roethke. Foreword by Justice William O.

Douglas. Edited by David Brower. Because of Ansel Adams, one of the greatest sel Adams' biography. Here are preserved 37

years

photographers of this century, the art of photography of a man's life — partly in the words of Nancy"The wilderness of the North Cascades is a graphs by Ansel Adams and others. Their genius, has progressed further. But also because of Ansel Newhall and the correspondence between Adams andnational resource of the

future,

not merely a local enhanced with a perceptive text by a writer andcommodity, and we need it all, as a nation." — poet identified with the natural wonders of the

Adams, the wilderness of America is safer. It is a the great names of photography. "If there remains atribute to the genius of this artist that two fields of doubt in anybody's mind that photography is an artsuch magnitude and importance can be so greatly

form,

a few moments spent leafing through this un-Justice William O. Douglas. area presents overwhelming evidence why theUnspoiled forests and rushing cataracts, Northern Cascades belong to our national gallery affected by one man's being. usually beautiful and appropriately titled book should

The Eloquent Light is the first volume of An- dispel it forever." — New York Times.where mirror lakes reflect spectacular glaciers, an of natural beauty! "An exquisite book of photo-incredible country that is potentially our greatest graphs and text." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. #7 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

176 pages, 88 black and white photographs in varnished

gravure

$20.00Wild 1national park unforgettably captured in photo-#11 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

89 photographs (21 in color) $20.00THEIE PLACE NO ONE KNEW: Glen Canyon on the Colorado

. ._....^—— By Eliot Porter. Edited by David Brower.Glen Canyon died in 1963 — this is the Sierra In its last days, Eliot Porter has followed the

Club's requiem for this great place that is no longer. winding river and delved into its many secret places,NOT MAN APART Drowned forever by the dammed waters of the Colo- recording in 72 color photographs the intimate charac-rado StorageProject is the twisting and tunneling river ter of wild land.

. —~ Lines from Robinson Jeffers. With photographs of the Big Sur Coast by Ansel Adams, MorleyBaer, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch, William Garnett, Philip Hyde, Eliot Porter, Cole Weston,Edward Weston, Don Worth, Cedric Wright, and others. Foreword by Loren Eiseley. Intro-

and its tributaries. Gone are the strange light and "A sumptuously beautiful volume . . . support-unique complex shapes,colors and life—Glen Canyon. Ed by a sensitive and almost devotional text." — Free-

For those who didnot know the canyon — and man Tilden in Natural History.for those who did — The Place No One Knew is aduction by Margaret Owings. Edited by David Brower. W-^-^^ lasting monument to the heritage that should have en-dured — but didn't.The Big Sur Coast of California is often natural background that I know in literature."

called "The Jeffers Country." The poet and his en- from the introduction by Loren Eiseley. #5 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

168 pages, 72 color plates

$25.00

vironment were one. "The sea-beaten coast, the A reminder to those who already know howfierce freedom of its hunting hawks, possessed and splendid a place it is, or an imitation of that splen-spoke through him. It was one of the most uncanny dor to those who have never been there, encourag- IN WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD

„, v,.,n and complete relationships between a man and his ing them to seek it out. Eliot Porter. Selections from Henry David Thoreau. Edited by David Brower.#10 in the Exhibit Format Series, 96 plates (32 in color)

$25.00

This is probably the book for which color pho- eau, practicing one of the oldest arts, taught us to seetography was invented. better than anyone had before. Eliot Porter makes no

In the Introductionto this book of photograph- attempt merely to document the selected passages. In-

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ill-ic interpretations of New England matched with su- stead— guided by sure artistic instinct — he has real-perb selections from Thoreau, Joseph Wood Krutch ized that the way to add to what Thoreau had writtenwrites: "Here, sensitively and with complete under- was to catch Thoreau's spirit, to see with his

eye

theGENTLE WILDERNESS: The Sierra Nevada standing, is presented through the medium of a new kind of thing he saw and loved. As a

result,

Porter's__<_V ">a_--B art that very world of American Nature which Thor- pictures are truly in the spirit of Thoreau."#4 in the Exhibit Format Series, 168 pages. 72 color plates $25.00Textfrom John Muir. Photographsby Richard Kauffman.

Here, nearly a century later, is the Sierra "And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoic-Nevada that John Muir wrote of so vividly in My ing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods WORDS OF THE EARTHFirst Summer in the Sierra. But now Muir's notes of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning amongand sketches are enhanced by the photographs of the icy peaks, the noonday radiance on the treesRichard Kauffman. The gentle wind blows through and rocks and snow, the flush of alpenglow, and aMr. Kauffman's color photographs; the gentle light thousand dashing waterfalls with their marvelousradiates from the pages. Now you can share John abundance of irised spray, it still seems to me

Cedric Wright. Foreword by Ansel Adams. Edited by NancyNewhall.a "What is offered here is not merely a collection with the earth's living things is implicit in every sensi-of nostalgic and beautiful pictures and poetic text, but tive photograph, in every verse, of this intensely beau-a profound revelation of a most uncommonman . . ." tiful book."—From the Foreword of Ansel Adams. "It is Mr. Wright's gift to show us 'the un-Cedric Wright — poet, photographer, natural- marked face of America's wilderness' with such clar-ist — reveals his belief that every man's spiritual hori- ity, grandeur, and intimacy that one dwells for a time

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_Muir's awe and fully understand why he wrote: above all others the Range of Light

#9 in theExhibit Format

Series,

168 pages, 75 color plates $25.00

vv^HiTs^^^^ zon. can be cxPanded by his contact with nature. in the scene and can return to it again for refresh-I \|. || , Wright's devotion to the High Sierra and his empathy ment." — Edward Weeks in The Atlantic.

#2 in theExhibit Format

Series,

53 black and white prints, 96 pages

$15.00

TIME AND THE RIVER FLOWING: Grand Canyon THIS IS THE AMERICAN EARTHFrancois Leydet. Foreword by David Brower. Edited by David Brower. Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall. Foreword by David Brower.

Most of the exquisite beauty of Glen Can- own interest and in the interest of the country,yon was destroyed in 1963 by the building of a Leave it as it is." ItfIMHIIIII "Although Thomas Jefferson argued that no Alongside a breathtaking panorama of Mount McKin-one generation has a right to encroach upon another ley at sunrise are the words: "Were all learning lost,generation's

freedom,

the future's right to know the all music stilled, Man, if these resources still remainedfreedom of the wilderness is going fast. And it need to him, could hear singing in himself and rebuildnot go at all . . . the saving is imperative to civiliza- anew the habitations of his thought."Is__---H tion and all mankind,whether or not all men yet know ". . . one of the great statements in the history

1 1 us is mi it-" — ti"0111 the Foreword by David Brower. of conservation ... I hope millions read this volume.".MKRICAN iaki Here in the most eloquent text and image is — Justice William O. Douglas.

dam not necessary in this century and perhaps The SierraClub searched for the finest pho-never necessary. Now the Grand Canyon itself tographs available to join with the poetic skills andfaces the same fate. Yet in 1903 Theodore Roose- factual reporting of Francois Leydet to create thisvelt said of the Grand Canyon: "... I want to ask beautiful book. If enough people care and act, theyou to do one thing in connection with it in your tragedy that befell Glen Canyon will not destroy

the Grand Canyon./.'iK_.

#8 in the Exhibit Format Series, 184 pages with over 100 color photographs $25.00what the land has meant to man through the ages.#1 in the Exhibit Format

Series,

112 pages, 84 gravure illustrations ....

$1500

&A ALMOST ANCESTORS:;.TjWX The First Californians

the Sierra Club's Best seller . . . ON THE LOOSEPhotographs and hand-letteredtext by Terry and Renny Russell

Hardbound in slipcase,On the Loose is a chronicle of triumph and tragedy — the triumph of 128 pages 6'/2 x 9V_,

gainingan insight about oneself through an understanding of the natural 63 photographs, 57 in color, allworld; the tragedy of seeing the splendor of that world increasingly threat- Ru__efi raPhy

enedby men who don'tknow or don't care.

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Theodora Kroeber, author of the best sellerIshi in Two Worlds, and Robert F. Heizer. Edited by F. David Hales

For several years, now, the Sierra Club has been singling outsome elements of wilderness that seem beautiful by today's stand-ards, and that the club thinks will be important by any standards.Books have been published to celebrate wild places, to let people HISTORICAL & REGIONAL STUDIESknow about them, to elicit protection of the irreplaceables, to urgethat civilization flow around the wilderness and not over it, to sug-

" JOHN MUIR AND THE SIERRA CLUB BOOKS FROM THE MOUNTAINEERSThe Battle for Yosemite,by Holway R. Jones

Here for the first time are invaluable records of the struggle by Muir * IHE NORTH CASCADESand his colleagues to preserve the Yosemite area — from 1864 to the By Harvey Manning. Photographs by Tom Miller. 10 x 12 inches, 96establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. 244 pages with P aBes. including 83 photographs and 10 maps. $10.00color endpaper map. $10.00 . MOUNTAINEERING: THE FREEDOM OF THE HILLS

" ISLAND IN TIME— The Point Reyes Peninsula Edited by Harvey Manning. 444 pages, fully illustrated, cloth. 17.50

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gest that this wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yetlearned how to ask. One of those books was about Navajo wild-lands, and we managed to publish such a book without a singleIndian showing, but with much of the country beautifully in view.Now it is turnabout—Indians, and no country at all. The faces hererepresent California tribes that white men exterminated—tribes By Harold Gilliam, with photographs by Philip Hyde. ..(.iimtaim d__o/-m te Tc^uximnc.What we inherit on the shores of this amazing peninsula must - MUUmAIN RESCUE TECHNIQUES

serve uncountable millions in the more crowded time to come. 88 By Wastl Mariner. Paperback, knapsack size, 200

pages. $3.50

whose elements were slowly gathered together, each one discrete,each one alive on a living land, and each one now gone. Empathy pages, 40

pages

of plates, Bin color. paper, $4.95; cloth, $7.50

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Avn onrv. __■"; "/-"_, , _, ," ROUIES AND ROCKS: Hikers Guide to the Northmay not rise high when a piece of wild land perishes, but when a " JOHN MUIR'S STUDIES IN THE SIERRA Cascadesfrom GlacierPeak toLake ChelanEdited by William E. Colby. By Dwight Crowder and Rowland Tabor. $5.00

Yosemite as it was in Muir's time with a section of illustrations fromphotographs made 90 years ago by Eadward Muybridge. 142 pages. " MEDICINE FOR MOUNTAINEERING

$3.75 Edited by James A. Wilkerson, M.D.

$7.50

whole tribe vanishes, when fifty tribes disappear forever, we maywell think that there but for the grace of God go we.

Theodora Kroeber, whose story of "Ishi" attracted world-wideattention, now joins with Robert F. Heizer in presenting this origi- . WILDERNESS AND RECREATION .

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ffIKES ,N WESTERN WASHINGTONA report on Resources, Values and Problems. By Louise B M hllThe most complete compilation of data on American wilderness. . ars a .

$4.95

Cloth, 352

pages.

$5.75 . 30 HIKES IN ALASKAnal collection of almost 100 photographs of California Indians. Thephotographs, most of which had to be collected from museums andseveral private collections, date back as far as a daguerreotype FRANCOIS MATTHES AND THE MARKS OF TIME: Edited by william E- Hausen $2.50taken in 185 1 . Like the remarkable and wonderful characterof Ishi, Yosemiteand the HighSierra " TRAIL COUNTRY: Olympic National Park $695Edited by Fritiof Fryxell.the subjects of this story will haunt the minds of readers, stir their

15 of Matthes' essays, edited and with a biography of Mathes by " TRIPS AND TRAILSProfessor Fritiof Fryxell of Augustana College, Illinois. 192

pages,

By E. M. Sterling.

$4

95illustrated with endpaper map.

$7.50

consciences and perhaps result in much needed thought about manand his relationship to the land he occupies

RAMBLINGS BOOKS FROM FIVE ASSOCIATESA Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierra of California by theUniversity Excursion Party. By Joseph LeConte. " AN INTRODUCTION TO HAWAII

All the original illustrations of the Yosemite and High Sierra country By Ansel Adams and Edward Joesting. 9x12 inches, 100

pages

69as LeConte saw it in 1870. 167 pages.

$3.75

plates, 16 in color. cloth, $9.50; paper,

$5.95

100 Photographs in black and white, large page size (BV_ x 11 inches) 160 pages $15.00

WHOSE REDWOODS? TheParkland of Redwood Creek

" GALEN

CLARK,

YOSEMITE GUARDIAN " YOSEMITE VALLEYTextby Francois Leydet from The Last Redwoods By Shirley Sargent. By Ansel Adams. 64 pages, 45 plates. cloth, $6.00; paper.

$3.50

"One of the grand old men of Yosemite, Galen

Clark,

receives therecognition he deserves from the pen of Shirley Sargent" — Douglass " DEATH VALLEYH. Hubbard, Chief Park Naturalist for Yosemite. 172 pages, 16

pages

By Ansel Adams. Two maps, photographs, many in

color,

of illustrations. $5.75 cl oth, $5.50; paper,

$3.00

Introduction by Edgar and Peggy Wayburn. Photographs by JamesD. Rose and others.Redwood Creek provides the last real chance to save — The text of Whose Redwoods?, taken from The Last Red-

not only for ourselves but for countless generations to come — the woods (now out of print), makes movingly clear exactly how im-great natural heritage of the redwoods. Trees that were saplings portant the redwoods are to us and what is happening right thison the first Christmas still live here. This forest can live on for all minute to this irreplaceable natural resource. Illuminating the textthe Christmases if our government uses vision and acts boldly — are photographs, often tragic but always eloquent, of the greatand promptly. Timidity will lose this last chance — and once lost, it redwood groves that have known the millenniums and now faceis lost forever. destruction. Here is a window on a wilderness world of giants ■—giants besieged by the ever approaching whine of the chainsaw.

WILDERNESS CONFERENCE BOOKS

" WILDERNESS IN A CHANGING WORLD " WILDERNESS: AMERICA'S LIVING HERITAGE(Ninth Conference) Edited by Bruce Kilgore (Seventh Conference) Edited by David Brower

At the ninth in this series of biennial meetings in San Francisco Among the contributors are Justice William O. Douglas, Sigurdmany myths on conservation were laid to rest by a roster of cmi-

Olson,

Ansel Adams, Joseph Wood Krutch, Gerard Piel, and Paulnent Americans. Myths like "Wilderness can be preservedby leav- B. Sears.ing it alone" and "Dams on our rivers are necessary to produce _

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The contributors include Senator Clinton P. Anderson, James (Sixth Conference) Editedby David BrowerBonner, David Brower, Edward P.

Cliff,

Harold

Gilliam,

Clark The contributorsinclude Stanley A.

Cain,

lan McTaggert CowanKerr, Luna B. Leopold, Ashley Montagu, Peggy Wayburn, and Raymond B.

Cowles,

Frank Fraser Darling, and LunaB. Leopold!othprs

" WILDLANDS IN OUR CIVILIZATION

80 color plates $8.50

GRAND CANYON OF THE LIVING COLORADOPhotographs by Ernest Braun. Textby Jeffrey Ingram.Here is a wilderness adventure. With the aid of color pho- Ernest Braun's 66 color photographs give an extra life-like

tographs and exciting first-hand narrative this adventure is made as dimension to this adventure portrait of the living Colorado. Herevivid as possible, short of the actual experience. This adventure is in full color are the monumental beauty of the canyon and thestill with us today. But if the dam builders on the Colorado have extraordinary action of the living river still free and flowing. Nevertheir way, this wilderness experiencewill be destroyed with the liv- will the fight to save Grand Canyon take on a more personal im-ing river. portance to you as when you realize that almostall of these beauti-

Not only does the author let you share this exciting adven- ful photographs were taken in places the Bureau of Reclamationture with him, but because he has been so personally involved in has markedfor inundation.fighting the Grand Canyon dam legislation, he brings you authori-tative and concise definitions of the controversy itself.

" TOMORROW'S WILDERNESS (Fifth Conferencewith highlights of first four of conferences)(Eighth Conference) Edited by Francois Leydet Editedby David BrowerDiscussants include Paul Brooks, Fairfield

Osborn,

Wallace Steg- Contributionsby David Brower,Bridge

Cook,

A. StarkerLeopold,ncr, Nathaniel Owings, and Stewart Udall. Foreword by Howard George Marshall, Charlotte E. Mauk, Wallace Stegner, LowellZahniser.

Sumner,

Lee Merriman Talbot, Howard Zahniser, and others.Each book is 6 x 9V_ inches, lavishly illustrated with outstanding nature photographs. $5.75 each.

SPECIAL PRICE FOR THE SET — When you order all five of the above Wilderness Conference Books. $24.95.160 pages with 64 color photographs. 6'/_ x 9V_: inches $8.50

WILDERNESS EXPLORATION GUIDES PORTFOLIOS PRINTS' TiA CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO YOSEMITE VALLEY " MANUAL OF SKI MOUNTAINEERINGEditedby Steve Roper Edited by David BrowerGeology, climbing history, necessary equipment, and about 250 routes A valuable how-to-go guide with informative sections on each phase—some of them the world's most difficult ■—■ are clearly described of ski mountaineering. 256 pages, illustrated, $3.75.here. Many photographs and line drawings. Cloth, $4.75.

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" A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE HIGH SIERRA " STARR'S GUIDE TO THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL ANDEdited by Hervey Voge THE HIGH SIERRA REGION by Walter

Starr,

Jr.This guide covers cross-country routes, campsites, and mountaineering 125 Pa

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es> with index <New 10th Edition fully revised), $2.00.routes to some 540 named and 235 unnamed summits. Includes earlyhistory, advice on approaches, camping, trails, and topography. 298 " DEEPEST VALLEY Edited by Genny Schumacherpages, 16 pages of photographs, 22 line drawings, 11 maps, index, $4.75. a companion volume to "The Mammoth Lakes Sierra," this book tells

" A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE TETON RANGE ..but? ut the geological and natural wonders from Bishop south to Little,-,,..,, r . . -, . , Lake. Well-illustrated, with map, 6 x 9V4 inches, 208 pages, paper.Edited by Leigh Ortenburger

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95. cloth> $4 75Mountaineer Leigh Ortenburger has a firsthand acquaintance with mostof the known handholds and footholds in the Teton Range, America's

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r-i apicdc \_/r-r_j a /-> ahcd afavorite climbing ground. 336 pages, including 24 pages of photographs, i-AriAJKIINU l_il_AL.lt.K_ — Will. A LAMtKA45 line drawings by Eldon Dye, 3 maps, index, $6.00. By A.E. Harrison

PORTFOLIO ONE: GENTLE WILDERNESS PORTFOLIO COLOR WILDERNESS PRINTSTHE SEASONS by Eliot Porter By Richard Kauffman Ten assorted plates (10/4 x 13'/.). Suitable for

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Everest: The West RidgePINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT By Steve Roper " ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO YOSEMITEAuthor Steve Roper has made over 50 trips to the monument before By Virginia and Ansel Adamswriting this valuable climber's guide, published by The Ski Hut. He Included in the Sierra Club edition of this old favorite are new maps,concentrates mainly on helpful distances and compass directions. new design, and an important new section: "Ansel Adams on MountainContains five maps, and several photographs. Paperback, $2.75. Photography." 192

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GIANT FULL COLOR WILDERNESS POSTERSLast year the Sierra Club introduced a new way to the trade, we reproduced these exciting photographs on heavy

bring the beauty of the wilderness into your home. From all poster paper in giant size — 25 x 37 inches. So successfulthe full color photographs in our books we selected 13 which were theseoriginal 13 posters that we have nowadded 4 more,we felt were the most striking. Utilizing the same reproduction Posters are individuallyrolled in plastic to insure perfect con-techniques that have become known as "Sierra Club color" in dition on arrival.

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GREETING Autumn: Tree and Rock "In Wildness ..." U 8272Waimea Canyon Kauai U 8274

NOTES Boy and Hat On the Loose U 8275Colornotes tire available insets of 20 notes for $3.95.Please order by number.

Oar and River Grand Canyon U 8276Muir Inlet Glacier Bay U 8279Beautifully reproduced (and reduced) photographs and texts

from famous Sierra Club books, handsomely boxedfor perfect gift giving.Black and white notes in sets of 24 for

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Evening: Canyon de Chelly Navajo Wildlands U 8281

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Spruce Forest "In Wildness ..." U 8271Climbers on Hummingbird Ridge (Mt. Logan, Yukon) Ascent (Sierra Club Mountaineering Journal) U 8273BW 1 Prairie Creek Redwoods

BW 2 Forest AfternoonBW 3 El Capitan, Winter, YosemiteBW 4 Colorado River at Granite CreekBW 5 Winter

Storm,

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Wave and Foam: Barking Sands Beach Kauai U 8277C 5 Leaves, Wainiba Stream, KauaiC 6 Surf and Rocks, Big SurC 7 Blue Stone Tablet, EverestC 8 Black-throated Warblers, MaineC 9

Sunset,

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Serenade to the Sea On the Loose U 8278Lost Man

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Last Redwoods U 8282Miners Ridge and Ten Mile Peaks Wild Cascades U 8283

BW 6 Fog near Cascade PassThe six posters listed above may be purchased together in SET #2,

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BW 7 Willet, Drake's Beach, Point ReyesBW 8 Sunrise, Mount McKinley C 10 Navajo Ptroglyphes ,

C 1 1 Sunset on Makalu, EverestC 12 Monument Valley ButtesC 13 Lava Falls, Grand CanyonC 14 Sierra Timberline Rock GardenC 15 Near Glen Aulin, Tuolomne RiverC 16 Happy Isles, Winter Morning, SierraC 17 Trees and Snow, In WildnessC 18 Water and Rocks, Glen CanyonC 19 Spruces, In Wildness

Available only individually — not included in either set:BW 100 Three each of the above 8 subjects.BW 9 Sierra Stream

Giant Yucca in Bloom Baja California U 8284Damaged Redwoods Last Redwoods U 8287

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Dungeon Canyon Place No One Knew U 8288Center Basin Gentle Wilderness U 8289

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Devil's Post Pile Gentle Wilderness U 8290

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BW 101 Three each of the above 8 subjects.C 20 Autumn Leaves, In Wildness

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