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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 5 items are available
for $66, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRKY106) |
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Moon Colorado
• Steve Knopper
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
This comprehensive, up-to-date guide in the popular series includes good background information about history, culture and popular attractions.
(SWU267, $19.95) |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Isabella Bird
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Isabella Bird was an inspiring -- and intrepid -- Victorian traveler. This book collects her letters home to her sister Henrietta during travels through the Colorado Rockies in 1873, a side-trip she made on the way home from Hawaii. Henrietta was so entranced by her sister's descriptions of foreign life that she proposed joining her in Hawaii, an offer which prompted Isabella to abandon the islands altogether. Her letters from Colorado are as evocative as those from Hawaii, but something about their content -- one-eyed suitors, hikes to 15,000 feet -- dissuaded Hennie from pressing her case.
(USW44, $7.95) |
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Beyond the Aspen Grove
• Ann Zwinger
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 358 PAGES
A reissue of Zwinger's loving, illustrated guide to the Colorado Rockies, and particularly the forest, meadows, and wildlife from 7,000 to 9,000 feet. With 80 pages of lovingly detailed black-and-white illustrations of trees, plants, shrubs, mushrooms (and a few invertebrates) by the author.
(RKY42, $17.50) |
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States
• Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 447 PAGES
A compact field guide to 1,000 commonly encountered plants and animals of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. With 1,500 color photographs, 11 maps, and 16 night-sky charts. Alden also surveys the region's natural history, and tourist attractions.
(USW286, $19.95) |
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Recreational Map of Colorado
• GTR Mapping
MAP
A very good fold-out map of Colorado at a scale of 1:820,000 showing topography, parks and wilderness areas, cities, towns and roads. With mileage chart, index and points of interest. Two Sides. 24x37 inches.
(RKY13, $3.95) |
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Also Recommended
Colorado National Monument Map
• Trails Illustrated
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A detailed hiker's topographic map of Colorado National Monument at a scale of 1:24,000.
(RKY44, $9.95)
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Colorado, A Liquid History & Tavern Guide to the Highest State
• Thomas J. Noel
• GUIDEBOOK
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An award-winning, illustrated guide to noteworthy taverns and saloon, not just in Denver but throughout Colorado.
(RKY09, $27.95)
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Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs
• Eric Peterson
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(USW536, $16.99)
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Insight Guide Colorado
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lavishly illustrated guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions.
(RKY115, $23.99)
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Rocky Mountain National Park, A Visitor's Companion
• George Wuerthner
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, illustrated guide to Rocky Mountain National Park.
(RKY07, $19.95)
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Colorado, A History of the Centennial State
• Carl Abbott
• Stephen J. Leonard
• David G. McComb
• HISTORY
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A balanced and wide-ranging introduction to the state.
(RKY48, $29.95)
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Empire Express, Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
• David Haward Bain
• HISTORY
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A magisterial history of the railroad that connected the East to the West -- and radically changed the face of America. It is quite a tale, featuring greed, corruption, disaster and many memorable characters.
(USW135, $30.00)
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The City and the Saloon, Denver, 1858-1916
• Thomas J. Noel
• HISTORY
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A brief, scholarly portrait of saloon life in the old West.
(USW207, $23.95)
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The Magnificent Mountain Women, Adventures in the Colorado Rockies
• Janet Robertson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A collection of biographical stories based on the adventures of Colorado's pioneering explorers, sportswomen, lady botanists and modern climbers, quite a colorful group.
(USW199, $16.95)
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The Meadow
• James Galvin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Galvin's lyrical, personal memoir of ranch life along the Colorado-Wyoming border is rich with beautiful imagery and unforgettable characters.
(USW528, $15.00)
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Angle of Repose
• Wallace Stegner
• LITERATURE
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man's search for his grandparents' story. It beautifully weaves the history of the American West and a glimpse of their life in California, Colorado and Idaho.
(USW301, $16.00)
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Centennial
• James Michener
• LITERATURE
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Michener's epic novel, written in celebration of America's bicentennial and the American West, spans 136 million years of Colorado history.
(USW344, $8.99)
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The Best of the West, An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West
• Tony Hillerman
• ANTHOLOGY
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A campfire collection of unforgettable portraits of the West, this anthology takes in travelers, homesteaders, Navajos, government officials, pioneers and authors as diverse as Meriwether Lewis, John Steinbeck and Edward Abbey.
(USW87, $18.99)
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Rocky Mountain, The Story Behind the Scenery
• Michael T. Smithson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This brief, illustrated overview captures the drama and grandeur of the park in color photographs.
(RKY7, $11.95)
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Soul of the Rockies, Portraits of America's Largest Mountain Range
• Ed Cooper
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Featuring legendary climber Ed Cooper's photographs and adventures south from Glacier National Park through Idaho, Montana and Colorado to the border with Mexico.
(RKY103, $39.95)
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The Great Rocky Mountain Nature Factbook
• Susan Ewing
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Ewiing's family-friendly guide, with black-and-white drawings throughout, answers the curiosity of engaged visitors about the plants, animals and natural features of the Rockies.
(RKY03, $14.95)
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The Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Rockies: Colorado, Southern Wyoming, and Northern New Mexico
• Audrey Delella Benedict
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A comprehensive, authoritative guide to the geography and geology of the region, its plants, animals, climate and weather.
(RKY05, $24.95)
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The Rockies, A Natural History
• Richard Cannings
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This engaging, illustrated guide to the geology, history, habitats, wildlife and climate of the Rockies is geared for naturalist-travelers and includes hundreds of color photographs.
(RKY82, $29.95)
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Plants of the Rocky Mountains
• Linda Kershaw
• FIELD GUIDE
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Covers over 1300 species of trees, flowers, ferns and more, with hundreds of photographs and line drawings.
(RKY87, $22.95)
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Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
• John J. Craighead
• FIELD GUIDE
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A Peterson guide to 590 species of wildflowers, with both line drawings and a section of color photographs. Focusing on family and genus, the book includes the most conspicuous and commonly encountered flowers.
(USW41, $21.00)
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Rocky Mountain Wildlife
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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A laminated, fold-out guide to almost 150 animal species of the Rocky Mountains.
(USW388, $5.95)
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Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains
• James Halfpenny
• Todd Telander
• FIELD GUIDE
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An essential pocket guide to 70 species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds, with line drawings, range map and description.
(USW118, $9.95)
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