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[and gift selection] BOOK CATALOGUE In the Fall of 1968 the Sierra Club Will Proudly Present the First in its Exciting new International Series,Devoted to The Earth's Wild Places . . .

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■h )0 he Exhibit Format Series, 160 pages, 9. i It i K_ AUAl and the Park Country of Hawaii ~ Text and Photographs by Robert Wenkam. Edited by Kenneth Brower. BAJA Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii has didly free of billboards and telephone wires, over WV. _PI long deserved inclusion inin thethe Sierra Club's Exhibit to the windward side of thatthat islandisland and out to the Pg^ JJM Format Series of books. Its deep green canyons, road's end at Na Pali, to feel the sea wind there And the Geography Hope T vf^k pounding surf and jagged mountains are and be amazed at the surf. With the car safely be- of \\ T 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." Text selected from the writings of nS V In his foreword, David Brower, Executive I S«y Director of the Sierra tells of his trip with In 72 color plates Robert Wenkam catch*catches, Joseph Wood Krutch VHn ''JjS I thethe author to Kauai: "Here"Here we glimpsed the mag- as well as the finest photography can, thethe beauty of d^^Blf nificence of what a Kauai National Park could en- this superb scenic area. The text captures much of Photographs by '' compass. We drove along a scenic highway, splen- the dramatic history of the land itself. Foreword by David Brower #15 in the Exhibit Format 72 color photographs Edited by Kenneth Brower NAVAJO WILDLANDS As Long As the Rivers Shall Run k!/|f'0 >I^| "Baja California is a wonderful exampleof how much bad roads can do V| > in, ' for a country. Nature gaveto Baja California nearly all of the beautiespossible in a dry, Photographs by Philip Hyde. Text by Stephen C. Jett. warm climate towering mountains, flowery — desert blue water, bird-rich islands, The Navajo tribal lands are spread over a fate similar to that which befell . and scores of great, curving beaches as fine as the best anywhere in the world. All of some of America's most striking wilderness areas. The life-blood of the land — the still-living and this has remained very nearly inviolate just because very little of what we call progress The landscape in the Southwest is hardly believ- free-flowing rivers, the rivers that should run for- has marred it. Baja has never needed protection because the land protects itself.'' able. In Navajo Wildlands Philip Hyde presents a ever — may be shut off by dams. In an attempt to Joseph Wood Krutch in his Introduction to BAJA CALIFORNIA And the Geography camera portrait of this complex area that has long preserve their lands, the Navajos created a Tribal ofHope. fascinated man. In 72 color photographs Mr. Hyde Park Commission to help identify areas of scenic But the 20th century will soon be catching up with traveler's record of Baja, they are works of art which record captures the gothic mood of this wilderness and its importance and to strive for their incorporation basic element stone. For although at times it into a Navajo Park. Baja California. Right now a blacktop road penetrates the an individual artist's special vision. Looked at from one point — may be thinly veneered with sandy soil or some- This was but the first step in solving the miles to Felipe. The remaining of view, they areprimarily mood and pattern peninsula for only 128 San pictures. In this what disguised by sparse struggling shrubs, stone is problems of preserving this area. With the finest by nearly 800 miles of Baja is accessible only very rough respect they belong in the finest tradition of modern art. But dominant in this land. With Navajo Wildlands text and photographs we could find, the Sierra roads—the further South you travel the rougher the road. And they are fundamentally different from pure abstractions be- can return again and again to the strange fascina- Club tries to describe as vividly as possible the cru- as Mr. Krutch points out, "Bad roads act as filters. They sepa- cause the moods are generated by external nature and the pat- tion of the sculptured formations of stone which cial problems that still lie ahead problems that rate those who are sufficiently appreciativeof what lies beyond terns are those discovered in nature, not purely human in- tower over the vast barrenness. involve all America for on their—solution depends die blacktop to be willing to undergomild inconvenience from ventions. Porter's is an art which reasserts the old conviction But this majestic land is now threatened by the future of this great natural heritage. that much larger number of travelers which is not willing. The that nature is the source of all beauty and the sole inspiration #14 in the Exhibit Format 72 color photographs $25.00 rougher 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 all government will have to decide whether to halt cer- spectacles and something of which man is a part; that Mexican she is Country tain kinds of exploitation or let them destroy things which, a source of health and joy which inevitably dries up when man SUMMER ISLAND: Penobscot once lost, can never by recovered. is alienated from her; these are the ultimate reasons why it Eliot Porter. Foreword by Carl Buchheister. Edited by David Brower. To illustrate the beauty of this land its strange and seems to us desperately important that the works of nature -TT--2 — One of America'smostrenowned color pho- been a classic vacationland. Many thousands fascinating landscape with giant cardon cactus and contorted should not disappear to be replaced by the works of of man tographers, for half a century a summerresident of Americans will discover in these photographs the elephant trees, its tropical brilliance Eliot Porter is the ideal alone." — Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, shares beauty that is the reason for this many thou- photographer. Again to quote Mr. Krutch: "Eliot Porter's #17 in the Exhibit Format 160 pages with 72 color his years of discovering the beauty of the Maine sands more will rediscover its charm. Hopefully all photographs, for all their detail and realism, are not just a plates coast. Mr. Porter's photographs in his two previous will re-experience the irreplaceable values to be _____! Exhibit Format books have made book history. His gained from knowledge of such places, and out of genius is here focused on the water, rocks, this experience draw inspiration for the ways to GLACIER BAY The Land and the Silence Mill""' and wildlife in a region that for generations has preserve them. #1 3 in the Exhibit Format 200 pages, 48 color, 48 varnished gravure $25.00 Photographs 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. But EVEREST: The West Ridge der of it all. Not all people can share such wonder when the elements are brought together, the Gla- By Dr. Thomas Hornbein, photographed by the American Expedition or will want to. But Dave Bohn fortunately wanted cier country comes through Mount Everest and its Bay a combination leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth. Foreword by Dr. William E. Siri. Edited by David Brower. to and could, and has brought back alive the awe- of man, camera, notebook, and empathy— that is not some landscape that Glacier Bay National Monu- going to happen again soon." — David Brower in ". . . quite simply the most glorious book of graver have made the perfect marriage. Perfection ment is. His is an extraordinary one-man show, in the Preface to Glacier Bay. color photographs one can ever hope to see. Here at last!" which the photographer also selects the cast and at last the treasure chest has been thrown wide The above direct quote is what the New It is and the has air directs the play. The photographs ■— five years of No single adjective or phrase can do justice open. a big book, color to York Times Book Review said about this moving them, from a tent, in the snow and the gales and to this huge land. With the publication of Glacier breathe in. The mountain air pours through these story, told first-hand by the man who accepted the photographs and colors challenge of West Ridge. floating ice, that meant numb frigid hands, Bay: The Land and the the Sierra Club at- #* the most subtle are ren- Everest's Here is all the sometimes-wet cameras — were not made to illus- tempts to come as close as possible. dered with fidelity. The photographer and the en- excitement of the incredible traverse and the long- I EVfcRESI est night. #16 in the Exhibit Format 83 photographs, 16 in color $25.00 #12 in the Exhibit Format Series, 200 pages, 90 color photographs $25.00

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Series, THE WILD CASCADES: Forgotten Parkland I: The Eloquent Light By . 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 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 and national resource of the not merely a local enhanced with a perceptive text by a writer and Adams, the wilderness of America is safer. It is a the great names of photography. "If there remains a commodity, and we need it all, as a nation." — poet identified with the natural wonders of the tribute to the genius of this artist that two fields of doubt in anybody's mind that photography is an art Justice William O. Douglas. area presents overwhelming evidence why the such magnitude and importance can be so greatly a few moments spent leafing through this un- Unspoiled 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 An- where mirror lakes reflect spectacular glaciers, an of natural beauty! "An exquisite book of photo- Eloquent Light is the first volume of dispel it forever." — Times. incredible country that is potentially our greatest graphs and text." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. in the Exhibit Format 176 pages, 88 black and white photographs Wild 1 — #7 in varnished $20.00 national park unforgettably captured in photo- #11 in the Exhibit Format 89 photographs (21 in color) $20.00 THEIE 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 Coast by Ansel Adams, Morley and its tributaries. Gone are the strange light and "A sumptuously beautiful volume . . . support- Baer, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch, William Garnett, Philip Hyde, Eliot Porter, Cole Weston, unique complex shapes, colors and life—Glen Canyon. Ed by a sensitive and almost devotional text." — Free- Edward Weston, Don Worth, , and others. Foreword by . Intro- For those who did not know the canyon — and man Tilden in Natural History. for those who did — The Place No One Knew is a duction by Margaret Owings. Edited by David Brower. W-^-^^ lasting monument to the heritage that should have en- The Big Sur Coast of California is often natural background that I know in literature." dured — but didn't. called "The Jeffers Country." The poet and his en- from the introduction by Loren Eiseley. #5 in the Exhibit Format 168 pages, 72 color plates vironment were one. "The sea-beaten coast, the A reminder to those who already know how fierce 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 . Edited by David Brower. #10 in the Exhibit Format Series, 96 plates (32 in color) This is probably the book for which color pho- eau, practicing one of the oldest arts, taught us to see tography was invented. better than anyone had before. Eliot Porter makes no In the Introductionto this book of photograph- attempt merely to document-w"-" the selected. passages. In-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 written writes: "Here, sensitively and with complete under- was to catch Thoreau's spirit, to see with his the GENTLE WILDERNESS: The standing, is presented through the medium of a new kind of thing he saw and loved. As a __<_V ">a_--B Porter's art that very world of American Nature which Thor- pictures are truly in the spirit of Thoreau." Textfrom . Photographs by Richard Kauffman. #4 in the Exhibit Format Series, 168 pages. 72 color plates $25.00 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 EARTH First Summer in the Sierra. But now Muir's notes of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning among and sketches are enhanced by the photographs of the icy peaks, the noonday radiance on the trees Cedric Wright. Foreword by Ansel Adams. Edited by Nancy Newhall. Richard Kauffman. The gentle wind blows through and rocks and snow, the flush of alpenglow, and a "What is offered here is not merely a collection with living things implicit Mr. Kauffman's color photographs; the gentle light thousand dashing waterfalls their marvelous the earth's is in every sensi- with of nostalgic and beautiful pictures and poetic text, but tive photograph, in every of this radiates from the pages. Now you can share John spray, it still verse, intensely beau- abundance of irised seems to me a profound revelation of a most uncommonman . . ." tiful book." Muir's awe and fully understand why he Range Light wrote: above all others the of —From the Foreword of Ansel Adams. "It is Mr. Wright's gift to show us 'the un- Cedric Wright poet, photographer, #9 in the Exhibit Format 168 pages, 75 color plates $25.00 — 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 for a h_ RxnanrlpH hie dwells time_ hv . t with A .. _■__ zon can be cxPanded by his contact with nature. in the scene and can return to it again for refresh- vv^HiTs^^^^ Wright's. devotion to the High Sierra and his empathy ment." aI \|. || , — Edward Weeks in The Atlantic. #2 in the Exhibit Format 53 black and white prints, 96 pages

TIME AND THE RIVER FLOWING: THIS IS THE AMERICAN EARTH Francois 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- and in the own interest interest of the country, "Although Thomas Jefferson argued that no Alongside a breathtaking panorama of Mount McKin- yon was destroyed by building ItfIMHIIIII in 1963 the of a Leave it as it is." one generation has a right to encroach upon another ley at sunrise are the words: "Were all learning lost, dam not necessary in this century and perhaps The Sierra Club searched for the finest pho- generation's the future's right to know the all music stilled, Man, if these resources still remained never necessary. Now the Grand Canyon itself tographs available to join with the poetic skills and freedom of the wilderness is going fast. And it need to him, could hear singing in himself and go all rebuild faces the same fate. Yet in 1903 Theodore Roose- factual reporting of Francois Leydet to create this not at . . . the saving is imperative to civiliza- anew the habitations of his thought." Is__---H tion and all mankind,whether or all men ". great velt said of the Grand Canyon: "... I want to ask beautiful book. If enough people care and act, the not yet know . . one of the statements in the history it-" ti"0111 the Foreword by David conservation I hope you to do one thing in connection with it in your tragedy that befell Glen Canyon will destroy 1 1 us is mi — Brower. of ... millions read this volume." not iaki Here in the most eloquent text and image Justice O. Douglas. the Grand Canyon. .MKRICAN is — William /.'iK_. what the land has meant to man through the ages. in the Exhibit Format Series, 184 pages 100 #8 with over color photographs $25.00 #1 in the Exhibit Format 112 pages, 84 gravure illustrations ....

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Series, $1500 ALMOST the Sierra Club's Best seller . . . ON &A;.Tj W ANCESTORS: THE LOOSE Photographs and hand-letteredtext by Terry and Renny Russell X The First Californians Hardbound in slipcase, On the Loose is a chronicle of triumph and tragedy — the triumph of 128 pages 6'/2 x 9V_, Theodora Kroeber, author of the best seller gaining an insight about oneself through an understanding of the natural 63 photographs, 57 in color, all world; the of raPhy Ishi in Two and by tragedy seeing the splendor of that world increasingly threat- Ru__efi Worlds, Robert F. Heizer. Edited F. David Hales enedby men who don'tknow or don't care. 95 For several years, now, the Sierra Club has been singling out some 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 STUDIES know about them, to elicit protection of the irreplaceables, to urge that civilization flow around the wilderness and not over it, to sug- JOHN MUIR AND THE FROM THE MOUNTAINEERS gest that this wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet " The Battle for Yosemite, by Holway R. Jones learned how to ask. One of those books was about Navajo wild- Here for the first time are invaluable records of the struggle by Muir * IHE NORTH CASCADES By Harvey Manning. Photographs lands, managed to publish single and his colleagues to preserve the Yosemite area — from 1864 to the by Tom Miller. 10 x 12 inches, 96 and we such a book without a establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. 244 pages with P aBes. including 83 photographs and 10 maps. $10.00 Indian showing, but with much of the country beautifully in view. color endpaper map. $10.00 MOUNTAINEERING: THE FREEDOM OF THE HILLS Now it is turnabout Indians, and no country all. The faces here . — at ISLAND IN TIME — The Point Reyes Peninsula Edited by Harvey Manning. 444 pages, fully illustrated, cloth. 17.50 represent men " By Harold Gilliam, with photographs by Philip Hyde. California tribes that white exterminated—tribes ..(.iimtaim d__o/-m te Tc^uximnc. What we inherit on the shores of this amazing peninsula must MUUmAIN RESCUE TECHNIQUES whose elements were slowly gathered together, each one discrete, y serve uncountable millions in the more crowded time to come. 88 - B Wastl Mariner. Paperback, knapsack size, 200 on and pages, plates, each one alive a living land, each one now gone. Empathy 40 of Bin color. paper, $4.95; cloth, $7.50 __■"; , _, , ROUIES ANDAvn ROCKS:onrv. Hikers"/-"_, to North may not rise high when a piece of wild land perishes, " Guide the but when a JOHN MUIR'S STUDIES IN THE SIERRA Cascadesfrom GlacierPeak toLake Chelan whole tribe vanishes, when fifty tribes disappear forever, we may " Edited by William E. Colby. By Dwight Crowder and Rowland Tabor. $5.00 well think that there but for the grace of God go Yosemite as it was in Muir's time with a section of illustrations from we. photographs made 90 years ago by Eadward Muybridge. 142 pages. MEDICINE FOR MOUNTAINEERING Theodora Kroeber, whose story of "Ishi" attracted world-wide $3.75 " Edited by James A. Wilkerson, M.D. now attention, joins with Robert F. Heizer in presenting this origi- . WILDERNESS AND RECREATION ffIKES ,N WESTERN A report on Resources, Values . WASHINGTON nal collection of almost 100 photographs of California and Problems. By Louise B Marshlla Indians. The The most complete compilation of data on American wilderness. . . photographs, most of which had to from be collected museums and Cloth, 352 $5.75 . 30 HIKES IN ALASKA several as Edited private collections, date back far as a daguerreotype FRANCOIS MATTHES AND THE MARKS OF TIME: by william E Hausen $2.50 taken in 185 1 Like the remarkable and wonderful characterof Ishi, Yosemite and the High - . Sierra TRAIL COUNTRY: Olympic National Park $695 the subjects of this story will haunt the minds of readers, stir their Edited by Fritiof Fryxell. " essays, consciences and perhaps result in much needed thought about 15 of Matthes' edited and with a biography of Mathes by TRIPS AND TRAILS man Professor Fritiof Fryxell of Augustana College, Illinois. 192 " By E. M. Sterling. 95 and hisrelationship to the land he occupies illustrated with endpaper map. 100 Photographs in black and white, large page size (BV_ x 11 inches) 160 pages $15.00 RAMBLINGS BOOKS FROM FIVE ASSOCIATES A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierra of California by the University 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 69 WHOSE REDWOODS? TheParkland of Redwood Creek as LeConte saw it in 1870. 167 pages. plates, 16 in color. cloth, $9.50; paper, Textby Francois Leydet from The Last Redwoods " GALEN YOSEMITE GUARDIAN YOSEMITE VALLEY By Shirley Sargent. " By Ansel Adams. 64 pages, 45 plates. cloth, $6.00; paper. Introduction by Edgar and Peggy Wayburn. Photographs by James D. Rose and others. "One of the grand old men of Yosemite, Galen receives the recognition he deserves from the pen of Shirley Sargent" Douglass DEATH VALLEY Redwood Creek provides the last real chance to save The text of , taken from The Red- — — Whose Redwoods? Last H. Hubbard, Chief Park Naturalist for Yosemite. 172 pages, 16 " By Ansel Adams. Two maps, photographs, many in not only for but generations (now movingly exactly ourselves for countless to come — the woods out of print), makes clear how im- of illustrations. $5.75 cl oth, $5.50; paper, great natural heritage of the redwoods. Trees that were saplings portant the redwoods are to us and what is happening right this on the first Christmas still live here. This forest can live on for all minute to this irreplaceable natural resource. Illuminating the text the Christmases if our government uses vision and acts boldly — are photographs, often tragic but always eloquent, of the great WILDERNESS CONFERENCE BOOKS and promptly. Timidity will lose this last chance — and once lost, it redwood groves that have known the millenniums and now face is lost forever. wilderness destruction. Here is a window on a world of giants ■— giants besieged by the ever approaching whine of the chainsaw. " WILDERNESS IN A CHANGING WORLD WILDERNESS: AMERICA'S LIVING HERITAGE 80 color plates $8.50 (Ninth Conference) Edited by Bruce Kilgore " (Seventh Conference) Edited by David Brower At the ninth in this series of biennial meetings in Among the contributors are Justice William O. Douglas, Sigurd many myths on conservation were laid to rest by a roster of cmi- Ansel Adams, Joseph Wood Krutch, Gerard Piel, and Paul nent Americans. Myths like "Wilderness can be preservedby leav- B. Sears. GRAND CANYON OF THE LIVING COLORADO it alone" and "Dams rivers necessary _ __,„ „_. ing on our are to produce ¥TT. ,- _,_,,_,,-, essential power" wereforever buried. THE MEANING OF WILDERNESS TO SCIENCE Photographs by Ernest Braun. Textby JeffreyIngram. The contributors include Senator Clinton P. Anderson, James ' (Sixth Conference) Editedby David Brower Here is a wilderness adventure. With the aid of color pho- Ernest Braun's 66 color photographs give an extra life-like Bonner, David Brower, Edward P. Harold Clark The contributorsinclude Stanley A. lan McTaggert Cowan Kerr, Luna B. Leopold, Ashley Montagu, Peggy Wayburn, and Raymond B. Frank Fraser Darling, and LunaB. Leopold! tographs and exciting first-hand narrative this adventure is made as dimension to this adventure portrait of the living Colorado. Here othprs vivid as possible, short of the actual experience. This adventure is in full color are the monumental beauty of the canyon and the WILDLANDS IN OUR CIVILIZATION still with us today. But if the dam builders on the Colorado have extraordinary action of the living river still free and flowing. Never TOMORROW'S WILDERNESS " (Fifth Conferencewith highlights of first four of conferences) their way, this wilderness experience will be destroyed with the liv- will the fight to save Grand Canyon take on a more personal im- " (Eighth Conference) Edited by Francois Leydet Editedby David Brower ing portance river. to you as when you realize that almostall of these beauti- Discussants include Paul Brooks, Fairfield Wallace Steg- Contributionsby David Brower,Bridge A. StarkerLeopold, Not only does the author let you share this exciting adven- ful photographs were taken in places the Bureau of Reclamation ncr, Nathaniel Owings, and Stewart Udall. Foreword by Howard George Marshall, Charlotte E. Mauk, , Lowell ture with him, but because he has been so personally involved in has markedfor inundation. Zahniser. Lee Merriman Talbot, , and others. fighting the Canyon dam legislation, brings you Grand he authori- 9V_ tative and concise definitions of the controversy itself. Each book is 6 x inches, lavishly illustrated with outstanding nature photographs. $5.75 each. 160 pages with 64 color photographs. 6'/_ x 9V_: inches $8.50 SPECIAL PRICE FOR THE SET — When you order all five of the above Wilderness Conference Books. $24.95.

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Osborn, Cook, Sumner, WILDERNESS EXPLORATION GUIDES PORTFOLIOS PRINTS s A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO YOSEMITE VALLEY MANUAL OF SKI MOUNTAINEERING ' Editedby " Edited by David Brower Geology, climbing history, necessary equipment, and about 250 routes A valuable how-to-go guide with informative sections on each phase Ti —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. A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE HIGH SIERRA STARR'S GUIDE TO THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL AND " Edited by Hervey Voge " THE HIGH SIERRA REGION by Walter Jr. covers 125 Pa es> with index New 10th Edition fully revised), $2.00. This guide cross-country routes, campsites, and mountaineering < W r». routes to some 540 named and 235 unnamed summits. Includes early history, advice on approaches, camping, trails, and topography. 298 DEEPEST VALLEY Edited by Genny Schumacher pages, 16 pages of photographs, 22 line drawings, 11 maps, index, $4.75. " a companion volume to "The Mammoth Lakes Sierra," this book tells PORTFOLIO ONE: GENTLE WILDERNESS PORTFOLIO COLOR WILDERNESS PRINTS ut the geological and natural wonders from Bishop south to Little A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE TETON RANGE but? THE SEASONS by Eliot Porter By Richard Kauffman Ten assorted plates (10/4 x 13'/.). Suitable for " ,-,,..,, r . -, . , Lake.. Well-illustrated, with map, 6 x 9V4 inches, 208 pages, paper. ,_ framing. Taken from superb . ., _. -,.. matting six . and Edited by Leigh Ortenburger .. . „ 95. cloth> $4 75 exhibit of the same name, 15 lithographic reproductions (10 xl2inches) hibjt Leigh Ortenburger acquaintance From the Smithsonian E Format Books $2.95 per set. Mountaineer has a firsthand with most these 12 color give depth to the four on heavy art PaPer 13 x 17 ready for framing. of the known handholds and footholds in the Teton Range, America's prints new < >> VDt r-i apicdc \_/r-r_j a /-> ahcd a seasons. Each is 8 x 10 inches and is The set comes in a handsome protective box in- favorite climbing ground. 336 including 24 of i-AriAJKIINU l_il_AL.lt.K_ Will. A LAMtKA " print In Wildness Is the Preservation pages, pages photographs, — mounted on 15 x 20-inch white board. The set in scrlbed wlth a quotation from John Muir. $8.95 45 line drawings by Eldon Dye, 3 maps, index, $6.00. By A.E. Harrison Wori_< a gold-stamped tie case. $225. mnrnio r, A "do-it-yourself" book on ice. Well-illustrated, 80 pages, 50 photo- A /->r GUIDElllr.r Available also on 6 monthly payments of $38.75 j p[ * CLIMBERS TO graphs, $1.95. ne ace N0 One Knew: " GLACIER NATIONAL PARK By J. Gordon Edwards Glen Canyon on the Colorado ". . . For explorers who would like to climb or who once did, or who GOING LIGHT WITH BACKPACK OR BURRO even now are looking for new footholds in Glacier National Park. 144 ,. , , „— Time and the River Flowing: ,- by n pages, including 48 pages of photographs by Ansel Adams, Philip Edited David Brower SIERRA CLUB FILMS GrandCanyon Hyde, Cedric Wright, the author, and others; 18 line drawings, 8 maps, A lighthearted, informative treatment of wilderness traveling and camp- index $475 m_- Eighth printing, and still going fast! 166 pages, illustrated, cloth, The Sierra Club has created a unique library of 16 mm. films in SummerIsland: PenobscotCountry $2.50. with Films, including the 1967 Academy Award Win- A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO full color and sound. ner for Best Documentary, The Redwoods, are available for rental. For full Everest: The West Ridge " PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT By Steve Roper ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO YOSEMITE information write: Author Steve Roper has made over 50 trips to the monument before " By Virginia and Ansel Adams Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii writing this valuable climber's guide, published by The Ski Hut. He Included in the Sierra Club edition of this old favorite are % concentrates new maps, SIERRA CLUB AssociationFilms, Inc. mainly on helpful distances and compass directions. new design, and an important new "Ansel Adams on Mountain Contains five maps, section: 25358 Cypress Aye., Hayward, California 94544 and several photographs. Paperback, $2.75. Photography." 192 cloth, $4.75; paper, $2.95. 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