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FROM EVERGLADES Patricia Caulfield A WORD ABOUT THE SIERRA CLUB PUBLISHING PROGRAM EVERGLADES By PATRICIA CAULFIELD The Sierra Club is a nonprofit organization. It has been working in the public interest since 1892—working to save the best of the American landscape from those who would spoil all that is left. There is no other wilderness like it in the country, nothing like it on this planet. That is why it must be saved, the part that is left. ... In less than a century, man is an integral part of this Publishing effort. And over the years the has already reduced the living Everglades to half their original size. The half Sierra Club imprint has come to stand for quality and purpose. The remaining could disappear in a generation. . . . purpose, of course, is to interpret for countless Americans the wil- From Everglades, twenty-first in the derness experience and the important processes natural environ- Sierra Club Exhibit Format series ments contribute to the human experience of life on this planet. The history of Western man in North America is distinguished by a record of important events occurring in unlikely places. Plymouth Rock, Concord Bridge, The club's 100,000 members have faith in this program. They The Alamo, Bull Run, Alamagordo: Places where it happened first—and where know that books and guides and portfolios the kind described in the happening, for better or worse, has made all the difference to each of us. — So it was and is with the Florida Everglades the place this catalogue—help to inspire the vision and the will that is needed — where America finally decided to halt the destructive forces of technology and to declare a beginning to continue the struggle against technological abuse of the Earth. to the end of the war against nature and human survival. Liberty came of age And in this Year of the Earth, when Americans everywhere at last on the bridge at Concord. The new ecological revolution came of age in the became aware of the words ecology and environment, the mem- saw grass prairies and mangrove forests of an imperiled Everglades National Park. Threatened by the planned construction of a super-jetport in 1969, the Sierra Club are proud to are bers of the know that their books chan- Everglades became a symbol of environmental values—and abuses—every- neling that awareness into a deeper knowledge and appreciation where. Yet despite all the news stories, magazine articles and television specials of America's last wild places. devoted to the Everglades, the full vivid story of the ancient "River of Grass" remains largely untold. Like ecology itself, the Everglades is too big a subject to know in half an hour or in 3,000 words. It demands the scope and substance As you browse through these pages, please keep in mind that of a book. The book is Everglades. every book you order helps the Sierra Club carry on its crucial cru- For photographer Patricia Caulfield, publication of Everglades represents the culmination of sade to preserve for you and your children the natural wonders nearly seven years of painstaking work in the field, stalking the — — elusive wild creatures which make the Everglades biologically of so unique. Her America. color photographs (65 plates altogether) reflect the region's dynamic life force: the snarling cougar, the implacable alligator, the soaring ibis, the bursting red The Sierra Club's home office is at 1050 Mills Tower, San Fran- blossoms of saw grass, the turbulent thunderheads stacked like mountains cisco, California 94104. A publications office is maintained at 250 against the sky. Accompanying Miss Caulfield's photographs are selections from the Street, New writings West 57th York 10019. Other offices for club and con- of Peter Matthiessen, one of America's most incisive interpreters of the natural servation affairs are located at 235 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., scene, and an essay in six chapters by John G. Mitchell, a former Newsweek Washington, D.C. 20002; 430 Auditorium Building, 427 West Fifth science editor, now editor-in-chief of the Sierra Club. Everglades. The book about the place that opened America's eyes to the crisis Street, , California 90013; 2014 East Broadway, Room of environment. 16, Tucson, Arizona 85719; 4534V2 University Way N.E., Seattle, Washington 98105; and Box 5-425, College, Alaska 99701. EDITED, WITH A FOREWORD, BY PAUL BROOKS A SIERRA CLUB EXHIBIT FORMAT BOOK " 144 Pages. 65 color plates. $27.50 pre-publication)

($25.00 ALDABRA ALONE GALAPAGOS! THE FLOW OF WILDNESS By Tony Beamish. Foreword by Huxley. Julian Photographs by . Text from , John Aldabra is unique. The huge Indian Ocean atoll is one of the P. Milton and Eliot Porter with excerpts from Charles Dar- few unspoiled islands that remain in the tropics and it is in even win, Herman Melville, William Beebe and others. Edited aldabra greater need of protection today than it was when Charles Dar- by Kenneth Brower. win and his friends first appealed for its preservation nearly a alone "In these two tall volumes the enchanted isles of Span- T hundred years ago. Aldabra's importance to science can hardly exaggerated. ish and Buccaneer tradition are brought to us as never be- be by incredibly As a natural treasure house, Aldabra must belong to the whole fore the beautiful photography of Eliot Porter . . . almost uniformly perfect in composition, depth world. U'V of focus, and what the French call ambiance." Aldabra Alone is an exciting story of exploration and of a by tonybeamish —Natural History CLUB dramaticallysuccessful conservation campaign. It is both a reas- surance and a challenge. 2 vols. 320 pages with 140 color plates. from the Foreword by Julian Huxley 222 pages,20 color and 4 black and white photographs, bVi x9 1h inches. CENTRAL PARK COUNTRY: atune within us

GRAND CANYON of the living Colorado Photographs by Nancy and Retta Johnston. Text by Mireille lohnston. Edited by . Photographs and a journal by Ernest Braun. "A subtle and expressive contribution to conservation material . . . Assorted compact statements quoted excerpts Contributions by Colin Fletcher, Allen j. Malmquist, Stewart and echo what the stun- ning color photographs convey visually, namely a protected park Udall. Edited, with two chapters, by Roderick Nash. Foreword that offers rewards and restoration of body spirit." by David Brower. and —Booklist 760 pages, 96 color plates. Here is a wilderness adventure made as vivid as possible, short of the actual experience, by color photographs and an exciting first-hand narrative. This adventure is still with us today. But if the dam builders on the Colorado had had their way, this wil- derness experience would have been destroyed with the living BAJA CALIFORNIA: AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE y river. Not only do the photographer and the authors let you share this exciting adventure with them, but they Text selected from the writings of Joseph Wood Krutch. because have been Photographs by so personally involved in fighting the legis- Eliot Porter. Foreword by David Brower. Edited by dam Kenneth Brower. lation, they bring you authoritative and concise definitions of the controversy itself. "If one had to choose the single outstanding gift book, it would 760 pages with 64 photographs. 6/2 x 9/2 inches. almost certainly be this one. It is a meld of art and form and content." —Robert Kirsch, LosLos Angeles Times 760 pages, 72 color plates. $25.00 THE LAST REDWOODS ZVooo'cZT0 °F Text by Francois Leydet. Introduction by Edgar and Peggy Way- burn. Photographs by James D. Rose and others. GLACIER BAY: THE LAND AND THE SILENCE The text of The Last Redwoods and the Parkland of Redwood Creek, taken from The Last Redwoods (now out of print) makes Text and Photographs by Dave Bohn. Foreword by L. J. Mitchell. movingly clear exactly how important the redwoods are to us (H^^m^M Edited by David Brower. is right minute irreplaceable and what happening this to this Glacier Bay National Monument is a new-born land still natural resource. ■^Sfela^J emerging Little Ice Age. It is a land filled roar Here is dig from the with the of violent winds a window on a wilderness world of giants giants be- —WLY and thundering and at times is by — avalanches yet there dn incredible sieged the threat of ignorance,by the ever approaching whine silence. In Alaska, where spectacular natural scenes are commonplace, chainsaw, by man. Will last to save of our of the this chance part Glacier Bay is perhaps most awe-inspiring of all. Dave Bohn heritage slip by unnoticed? Can it to? (||^^*

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ft $8.50 $25.00 COAST KAUAI AND THE PARK COUNTRY OF HAWAII NOT MAN APART: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE Text and Photographsby Robert Wenkham. Edited by David Brower. With lines from Robinson Jeffers. Foreword by Loren Eiseley. Introduction by Margaret Owings. Edited by David Brower. Here captured in famous Sierra Club color reproduction is the lush exotic beauty of this legendary island paradise. Efforts to pre- "The most beautiful book the Sierra Club has published . . . one serve unspoiled the truly unique and the uniquely spectacular part can almost hear the roar of the breakers and smell the wild sea depth of our newest state are described and illustrated for you by one of breeze. Lines from Robinson Jeffers' poetry give the added Hawaii's foremost conservationists. The story of its preservation is of emotion that man can feel for nature." —Oakland Tribune involved in creating one of our vividly told by a man intimately 760 pages, 52 gravure and 28 color photographs. $25.00 newest and most unusual national parks. 760 pages, 72 color photographs. / GENTLE WILDERNESS: the s,erra nevada NAVAJO ILDLANDb: THE RIVERS SHALL RUN _ Text from John Muir. Photographs by Richard Kauffman- Photographs by Philip Hyde. Edited by David Brower. nearly a century later, is the that John Muir wrote of so vividly in My First Summer in the Sierra. But now most spec- The Navajo tribal lands contain some of America's Muir's notes and sketches are enhanced by the photographs of tacular wilderness areas. A people with an ancient tradition of gentle through Mr. Kauffman's today increasing Richard Kauffman. The wind blows closeness to the land, the Navajos of face the color photographs; the gentle light radiates from the pages. Now demands of modern day living. you can share John Muir's awe and fully understand why he wrote: In 1957, the Tribe created a Tribal Park charged ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wonder- Navajo "And after with the identification of scenic areas and the creation of BHere,ing seems to me above all others the Range of Light . . ." ... it still Parks. With the finest text and photographs available, the Sierra Club describes the crucial problems that lie ahead—problems in- 768 pages, 76 color plates. volving all America—and explains our stake in theirproper solution. 760 pages, 72 color photographs. TIME AND THE RIVER FLOWING: SZn

penobscot country By Francois Leydet. Foreword by David Brower. Edited by David SUMMER ISLAND: Brower. .—" * By Eliot Porter. Foreword by Carl Buchheister. Edited by David ss^ Most of the exquisite beauty of was destroyed in Brower. 1963 by the building of a dam not necessary in this century and — never necessary. Until 1968, Canyon itself America's most renowned color photographers, for half "/: perhaps the Grand faced of the a summer resident Great Spruce Head Island in Pen- the same fate. Yet in 1903, Theodore Roosevelt said of Grand a century of thing in connection Bay, shares his years of discovering thebeauty of the Maine Canyon: "... I want to ask you to do one with obscot country . . coast. Mr. Porter's photographs in his two previous Exhibit Format it in your own interest and in the interest of the . Leave finest have history. His genius is on the it as it is." The Sierra Club searched for the photographs books made book here focused '■J*-' factual reporting water, rocks, and in a region for generations available to join with the poetic skills and of wildlife that j book. has been a classic American vacationland. | Francois Leydet to create this beautiful tOne200 pages, 48 color, 48 varnished gravure. 768 pages with over700 color photographs.

EVEREST: the west ridge I: the eloquent light By Dr. Thomas Hornbein, photographed by the American Mount . Edited by David Brower. Dyhenfurth. Everest Expedition and its leader, Norman Foreword Adams, one photographers of by ..—- Because of Ansel of the greatest by Dr. William E. Siri. Edited David Brower. century, the art of has progressed But m^^^^^mm this photography further. ". . . quite simply the most glorious book of color photographs also because of Ansel Adams, the wilderness of America is safer. one can ever hope to see. Here at last the treasure chest has been It is a tribute to the genius of this artist that two fields of such H"* thrown wide open. It is a big book, and the color has air to breathe W* II magnitude and importance can be so greatly affected by one man's in. The mountain air pours through these photographs and the most IwgEJ being. subtle colors are rendered with fidelity. The photographer and the Sorl hW! "If there remains a doubt in anybody's mind that photography is engraver have made the perfect marriage. Perfection at last!" an art f° rrn aew moments spent leafing through this unusually New York Times Book Review LIH m%\ beautiful and' appropriately titled book should dispel it forever." — ; & '.W£2 XVI RES) This moving story, told first-hand by the man who accepted the —New York Times the excitement of the challenge of Everest's West Ridge, has all 776 pages, 87 black and white photographs in varnished gravure. incredible traverse and the longest night. 200 pages, 90 color photographs.

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$20.00 $25.00 THE PLACE NO ONE KNEW: tTc^o" ALMOST ANCESTORS: the first californians By Eliot Porter. Edited by David Brower, By Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer. Glen Canyon died in 1963— this is the Sierra Club's requiem for place longer. this great that is no For those who did not know the The Sierra the American Wilderness in canyon and for No One Knew is Club has celebrated — those who did—The Place a earlier books; now, with this affectionate work of scholarship, we lasting monument to the heritage that should have endured—but have a book strictly about the Indians who inhabited the wilderness. didn't. In its last days, Eliot Porter has followed the winding river What cannot be said with words is said with the simple elo- and delved into its many secret places, recording in 72 color pho- fifjj\ quence of the 117rare, historic portraits including a daguerreotype tographs the intimate character of wild land. ■S "-<-*" dating back to 1851. The weatherworn, proud faces you "A . supported a sensitive "tfisM IMP will make sumptuously beautiful volume . . by ■ ponder who is the viewer and who is the viewed. and almost devotional text." 7 ■Ml HL The story of these people who have almost vanished will haunt Freeman Tilden in Natural History the minds of the readers, stir their conscience and perhaps result plates. — 784 pages,80 color in much needed thought about man and his relationship to the land he occupies. "IN WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION 768 pages, 777 photographs in black and white, BV2 x 11 inches. OF THE WORLD" By Eliot Porter. Selections from . Edited by -r- David Brower, ON THE LOOSE a&a is probably the book for which color photography was in- vented. In the Introduction to this book of photographic inter- SELLER pretations of New England matched with superb selections from THE SIERRA CLUB'S BEST ON mi LOOSI Thoreau, Joseph Wood Krutch writes: "Eliot Porter makes no at- tempt merely to document the selected passages. Instead—guided Photographs and hand-lettered text by Terry and Renny Russell. by sure artistic instinct—he has realized that the way to add to what Thoreau had written was to catch Thoreau's spirit, to see with his On the Loose is a chronicle of triumph and tragedy—the triumph of gaining an in- eye the kind of thing he saw and loved. As a result, Porter's pic- sight about oneself through an understanding of the natural world; the tragedyof seeing bThistures are truly in the spirit of Thoreau." the splendor of that world increasingly threatened by men who don't know or don't 768 pages, 72 color plates. care. If a young person lives in your house or in your heart, here is a book to present as a gift for graduation, promotion, a birthday or "just because." You yourself, will keep it on your shelf next to Walden, to savor again and again. It will say something new to you each time. WORDS OF THE EARTH 728 pages, 6V2 x 9/2 with color photographs. ~~_ By . Foreword by Ansel Adams. Edited by Nancy Newhall. WSg^^ Cedric Wright—poet, photographer, naturalist —reveals his be- lief that every man's spiritual horizon can be expanded by his j^^fctta^^ contact with nature. "It is Mr. Wright's gift to show us 'the un- THE POPULATION BOMB marked face' of America's wilderness with such clarity, grandeur, n^Kt)^^^^ anc intimacy that one dwellsfor a time in the scene and can return "While you are reading these words four people will have Eari v to it' again for refreshment." —Edward Weeks in The Atlantic died of starvation. Most of them children." J—jm—^JH^u, I 57 black and white prints, 96 pages. MKHHHIIII J*± BY Dr - Paul R - Ehrlich. Illustrated by Robert Osborn. \Tff ISfc- The book is authoritative and well documented, butt it is above THIS IS THE AMERICAN EARTH all a call to action, reinforced in this edition by the powerful and moving graphics of Robert Osborn. We feel that The Population By Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall. Foreword by David Brower, Bomb is one of the most important works we have ever published; — — we hope it be widely read, its call and one a will heeded, action taken — "Although Thomas Jefferson argued that no generationhas while the opportunity remains to ffflaWWlßfai still provide for the needs right to encroach upon another generation's freedom, the future's of human society, including the need for wilderness, within a livable ■l, 7, jJHII right to know the freedom of the wilderness is going fast. And it environment. L 4■fltM.il need not go at all .. . —from the Foreword by David Brower HUMBH 772 pages, 84 gravure illustrations. 792 pages, illustrated.

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$15.00 $5.95 WILDERNESS: THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE Edited by Maxine E. McCloskey This new volume presents the proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Wilder- 'jsjH ness Conference. Participants explore the wilderness values of Alaska and devote particular attention to the role of wildlife in the wildernessexperience. MUIR AND THE SIERRA CLUB -|^^^^»" Appendices include up-to-date information on endangered species and a JOHN The Battle for Yosemite by Holway Jones Az. JF special essay by Margaret W. Owings on the sea otter of California. .. ->«.>»-%■ Other contributors include David Brower, Dr. Paul Ehrlich, , Garrett Hardin, Senator Henry M. Jackson, John P. Milton, Congress- man Richard Elvis among others. ISLAND IN TIME—The Point Reyes Peninsula by Harold Gilliam. Photos by Philip Ottinger, $6.50 Hyde paper WILDERNESS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE GALEN CLARK, YOSEMITE GUARDIAN By Shirley Sargent Edited by Maxine E. McCloskey and James P. Gilligan The relevance of wilderness to modern man was the theme of the Tenth Biennial Wilderness upon which this book is based. The conference emphasized, for the first the MUIR'S STUDIES SIERRA by Colby time, JOHN IN THE Edited William E. value and urgency of reserving representative segments of wilderness found in the desert regions of the far West, as well as off-shore marine environments rapidly being overwhelmed by com- WILDERNESS AND RECREATION Sierra Club Cloth Edition mercial exploiters. Contributors include Phillip S. Berry, H.E.W. Secretary Robert H. Finch, Orville L. Freeman, Estella B. Leopold, Daniel B. Luten, J. Michael McCloskey, Robert Rienow, Peggy Wayburn, RAMBLINGS By Joseph LeConte and others. $6.50

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A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE HIGH SIERRA Edited by Harvey Voge by Richard Kauffman 15 lithographic reproductions (10x12 inches), on heavy art paper (13x17), suitable and ready A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE TETON RANGE By Leigh Ortenbarger for framing. These are the color prints that inspired and formed the basis of the Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series book, Centle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevada. The set comes in a handsome protective box inscribed with a quotation from John Muir. $8.95 A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO GLACIER NATIONAL PARK By Cordon Edwards

BELAYING THE LEADER An Omnibus on Climbing Safety

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STARR'S GUIDE TO THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL By Walter A. Jr. Ten assorted prints (10 1A x 13/2) suitable The Place No One Knew: Clen Canyon for matting and framing are available " on the Colorado from two superb Exhibit Format Series California: And the Geography of GOING LIGHT—WITH BACKPACK OR BURRO Editedby David Brower Ba/'a books: " Hope ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO YOSEMITE By Virginia and Ansel Adams Please specify on your order which set you wish. per set Cloth Paper

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