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We feature a handpicked selection of travel guides, maps, literature, books on art, nature and culture, designed to help you get more out of your travels to Nevada & the Great Basin. Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for fre
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Compass Guide Nevada
Deke Castleman Jeff Gnass
GUIDEBOOK 2000 PAPER 328 PAGES
Castleman mixes literary excerpts with his own descriptions of Nevada, from ghost towns to Las Vegas to the vast natural territory in between in this comprehensive, literate guide to the state. With 200 color photographs, diagrams and maps.
(USW223, $21.00)
The Sagebrush Ocean, a Natural History of the Great Basin
Jennifer Dewey Stephen Trimble
NATURAL HISTORY 1999 PAPER 136 PAGES
A classic natural history of the Great Basin, the huge temperate desert which stretches between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Organized by habitat, Trimble evokes the mystery, beauty, geology, and life of the region. With a map, 44 color, and 92 black-and-white photos. Published here in a 10th anniversary edition.
(USW365, $39.95)
Basin and Range
John McPhee
NATURAL HISTORY 1990 PAPER 216 PAGES
McPhee's illuminating account of travels in the company of geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes along Route 80 from Utah to California, a volume in his four-book series on North American geology. After this book, you'll never look at this austete landscape -- or a roadcut, quite the same way again. McPhee is a genious at exploring the things we often take for granted -- in this case, how simple road cuts expose aeons of earth's history.
(GEO13, $14.00)
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
NATURAL HISTORY 1990 PAPER 289 PAGES
FAVORITE
A beloved classic, read aloud at campfires throughout the Southwest. It's one of the great works on the value of the desert, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. Although Abbey writes specifically about the Colorado Plateau and his experiences as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab Utah, his message is universal. Originally published in 1990.
(DES02, $14.95)
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance
David Thomson
HISTORY 2000 PAPER 330 PAGES
A highly original, captivating social history of the state, including the extraordinary spectacle of Las Vegas, organized as a series of literary snapshots told in the first person. A travelogue of sorts, Thomson pieces together an astute, well written and researched portrait of Nevada. Wonderful.
(USW213, $14.00)
Nevada Map
Compass
MAP
A folded map of the state of Nevada at a scale of 1:1,000,000 with local inset maps of Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas and Reno.
(SWU58, $4.95)
Great Basin National Park Map
Earthwalk Press
GUIDEBOOK
A detailed hiking map of great Basin National Park.
(SWU54, $5.95)
Desert Survival Skills
David Alloway
GUIDEBOOK
A friendly, humorous guide to short-term and long-term survival in the desert.
(DES06, $24.95)
The Southwest Inside Out, An Illustrated Guide to the Land and its History
Thomas Wiewandt
Maureen Wilks
GUIDEBOOK
An outstanding guide to understanding the geomorphology of the Southwest, featuring color photographs by the author of canyons, dunes, and other landforms of the region.
(USW345, $24.95)
Nevada: A Bicentennial History
Robert Laxalt
HISTORY
A popular history of Nevada.
(SWU92, $15.95)
The Land of My Fathers, A Son's Return to the Basque Country
Robert Laxalt
Joyce Laxalt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A portrait of the Basque culture and people through the eyes of Robert Laxalt, who traveled through Basque country in the 60s. This book is based on Laxalt's journals and complemented by his wife's photographs.
(FRN162, $21.00)
Neon Nevada
Sheila Swan
Peter Laufer
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated chronicle of over 100 neon signs that have been produced and displayed in Nevada, the neon capital of the world.
(USW257, $39.95)
24/7, Living it Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas
Andres Martinez
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Former Wall St. Journal reporter Andres Martinez takes his $50,000 book advance to Las Vegas to try his luck at the casinos for a month.
(USW255, $15.00)
Mountain City
Gregory Martin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A memoir of rural life in the Basque-influenced sheep herding country of northern Nevada.
(SWU55, $19.00)
Sweet Promised Land
Robert Laxalt
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A memoir of a Basque sheepherders life in America and his return visit to the Pyrennes.
(SWU50, $18.00)
A Garden of Bristlecones, Tales of Change in the Great Basin
Micahel Cohen
NATURAL HISTORY
A natural and cultural history.
(SWU52, $34.95)
Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
NATURAL HISTORY
A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West.
(USW246, $18.00)
Earthtones, A Nevada Album
Ann Ronald
Stephen Trimble
NATURAL HISTORY
A handsomely illustrated portrait capturing the diversity of landscapes, people and culture of Nevada.
(SWU51, $39.95)
A Natural History of Western Trees
Donald Culross Peattie
FIELD GUIDE
Not exactly a field guide, Peattie's book is scattered with anecdotes and information on aboriginal use, folk names, and economic value of each species. He offers rich full-length portraits of his favorite trees, and the original wood engravings of the 1950 classic are also included.
(USW191, $21.00)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah
Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE
A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the American Southwest.
(SWU14, $19.95)
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