GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Window of Time
Stewart Aitchison
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
Available printed in French, German, Japanese or Spanish editions.
ISBN 1-58071-007-7 (English Edition)
$9.95
ISBN 1-58071-008-5 (German Edition)
$11.95
ISBN 1-58071-009-3 (Japanese Edition)
$11.95
ISBN 1-58071-024-7 (French Edition)
$11.95
ISBN 1-58071-057-3 (Spanish Edition)
$11.95

This stunningly beautiful, oversized book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by America’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories.

I was on the rim of the world. Nothing but space and raw rock before me. Golden-tan cliffs dropped to a crimson slope that led to vermilion ledges and more bluffs. Below was another vertical wall of a rosy hue, in places carved into deep alcoves. This precipice was followed by another incline, long, greenish-gray, and gently leveling off into a broad bench. The bench led to the brink of a dark, foreboding inner gorge, a prison hiding the Colorado River.

At first it seemed like a lifeless void, home only to the wind and the glare of the noontime sun. But then I noticed the stunted trees along the rim and the dark dots of shrubs growing within the Canyon. White-throated swifts darted by, tumbling and laughing. Out on a thermal, several turkey vultures teetered on dihedral-held wings. Life here is tenuous but tenacious.

...I have discovered there is no way to fully comprehend the place; it’s just too big; its scale is totally out of proportion to our daily lives; its riotous colored walls too outlandish; its convoluted landscape too strange. One can learn the statistics: 277 river miles long, averaging a mile in depth, one-half to eighteen miles wide, covering over one million acres, one-third of the earth’s geologic history exposed, a United Nations World Heritage Site. One can try to capture the Canyon on film or in a painting or with words, but these always fall short of the real thing with its many moods and many secret places.

—From “Window of Time” by Stewart Aitchison

Window of Time
Stewart Aitchison
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
Available printed in French, German, Japanese or Spanish editions.
ISBN 1-58071-007-7 (English Edition)
$9.95
ISBN 1-58071-008-5 (German Edition)
$11.95
ISBN 1-58071-009-3 (Japanese Edition)
$11.95
ISBN 1-58071-024-7 (French Edition)
$11.95
ISBN 1-58071-057-3 (Spanish Edition)
$11.95

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