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Author:   Richard F Fleck
Publisher:   Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co
Imprint:   West Winds Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.307kg
ISBN:  

9780871089687

ISBN 10:   0871089688
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   17 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   Prologue: Death Valley Chapter One: Descent into History at Grand Gulch, Utah Chapter Two: Adventures Beneath Desert Rims Chapter Three: Descent into the Grand Canyon Chapter Four: An Alluring, Icy Longs Peak Chapter Five: Steep Trails in Rocky Mountain National Park Chapter Six: High, Wide, and Windy: The Prairies of Laramie Chapter Seven: Where Land is Mostly Sky Chapter Eight: A Scramble up Tabeguache Chapter Nine: Four-Corner High Chapter Ten: A Windy Ascent of Guadalupe Peak, Texas Chapter Eleven: Sand Dunes of the High Desert Chapter Twelve: Climbing High in the Pecos and San Juan Mountains Chapter Thirteen: A Close Call on Mount Princeton Chapter Fourteen: The Solace of Dinosaur Ridge Chapter Fifteen: Rambles Along the Mosquito Range Chapter Sixteen: Multiple Ascents of Mount Evans and Pikes Peak Chapter Seventeen: Paha Sapa Wakan (Sacred Black Hills) Chapter Eighteen: Mountains Over the Desert Epilogue: A Rock on My Desk   A Selective List of Informative Mountain and Desert Books About the Author A Note on This Edition Index

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Fleck's eloquent accounts of climbing peaks and exploring the intermountain deserts of the American West reflect an intimate firsthand knowledge of and reverence for the region. --Lybrary.com Fleck's knowledge of the history, natural history and literature of the American West enriches his accounts of outings with family, friends and students. With his graceful prose and attentive eye, Fleck captures moments of awe . . . For hikers who share his enthusiasm for the interior West, Desert Rims to Mountains High will replenish a fading storehouse of memories and nurture an appetite for more. --Jane Koerner, COLORADO CENTRAL MAGAZINE This book is a shining example of how to write about the outdoors. --Arlene Shovald, The Mountain Mail

This book is a shining example of how to write about the outdoors. Arlene Shovald, The Mountain Mail

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Richard F. Fleck is author of many books including Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians, editor of John Muir’s Mountaineering Essays, A Colorado River Reader, which was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to be the reader for seven states project 2001-2. He contributed a biography of John Burroughs for the Encyclopedia of New York State. Fleck is also the author of numerous introductions to trade paperback editions including Henry David Thoreau’s Maine Woods, John Muir’s Our National Parks, and Samuel Hall Young’s Alaska Days with John Muir.

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