SIERRA CLUB BOOKS 7970 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, Los Angeles, 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 " SAN FRANCISCO 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 Eliot Porter. Text from Loren Eiseley, 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 David Brower. 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 Grand Canyon 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? (||^^*<aH the them be allowed "^ v,^] recreates for us thefull gamut of beauty of this superb wilderness park. pages, more 760 than 80 full color plates, 6V2 x 9Vi inches. "" 83 photographs, 76 in color. SIUiBA $55.00 $7.95 $25.00 $8.50 craft, Kirsch, ft $8.50 $25.00 COAST KAUAI AND THE PARK COUNTRY OF HAWAII NOT MAN APART: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BIG SUR 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.