Overview
Featuring 70 color photographs, this paperback edition celebrates the vast and popular desert areas of California, including America's newest national parks, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and the Mojave National Preserve."Somewhere out there is a land grand enough to hold all life's passions and contradictions, to expand one's soul with vast possibilities, to awaken all one's senses," Susan Zwinger exults at the start of Still Wild, Always Wild: A Journey into the Desert Wilderness of California. "Nowhere else on earth is geologic time so exposed as in a desert. There, you will travel swiftly through geological eras as you pass through highly eroded mountains, bizarre volcanic necks and cones." The California desert has attracted attention recently because of the passage of the Desert Protection Act, which created two new National Parks, Death Valley and Joshua Tree. Jeff Garton's luminous photographs give silent support to the case for preservation. Maps.