New Mexico II

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New Mexico ie
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID MUENCH
FOREWORD BY FREDERICK TURNER
1180 full-color photographs I Shaded relief map of New Mexico I Captions include location information
What is New Mexico? Just the forty-seventh state? Hardly. A land of mountains and valleys? A land of exotic desert beauty? A land of wild rivers and pristine wilderness? Definitely. New Mexico is all these and more. It is certainly an enchanting land full of history, natural beauty, and deep cultural roots.
New Mexico is Anasazi pueblos and petroglyphs, stalactites and stalagmites in Carlsbad Caverns, the old mission church of Saint Francis de Assisi, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the mighty Rio Grande.
David Muench has spent many hundreds of hours traversing the state both by vehicle and on foot to reach its remotest locations-always with large-format cameras in hand. Muench approaches each composition with his distinctive perception of the land itself. The images in this book—his second one on the... Tovább

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New Mexico ie
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID MUENCH
FOREWORD BY FREDERICK TURNER
1180 full-color photographs I Shaded relief map of New Mexico I Captions include location information
What is New Mexico? Just the forty-seventh state? Hardly. A land of mountains and valleys? A land of exotic desert beauty? A land of wild rivers and pristine wilderness? Definitely. New Mexico is all these and more. It is certainly an enchanting land full of history, natural beauty, and deep cultural roots.
New Mexico is Anasazi pueblos and petroglyphs, stalactites and stalagmites in Carlsbad Caverns, the old mission church of Saint Francis de Assisi, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the mighty Rio Grande.
David Muench has spent many hundreds of hours traversing the state both by vehicle and on foot to reach its remotest locations-always with large-format cameras in hand. Muench approaches each composition with his distinctive perception of the land itself. The images in this book—his second one on the state, replacing New Mexico (1974)-are of the same surpassing quality we have come to expect from any book by Muench.
Frederick Turner's Foreword makes even the armchair traveler thrill vicariously to the bewitching pull of this wonderful land. A resident of New Mexico for more than a decade and the author of numerous books and essays. Turner couples his considerable abilities as a writer with his great love for New Mexico.
The photographs and words together present a powerful image of a great state. New Mexico h will take its place as an outstanding book with other titles by David Muench.
¦ Front jacket photograph: Ruin structures against a dawn sky at Gran Quivira, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
¦ Back jacket photograph: White Sands National Monument. Vissza