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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $53, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSWU06)
 
Compass Guide New Mexico  •  Nancy Harbart  •  Michael Freeman
GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 323 PAGES
A compact, handsomely produced handbook, featuring outstanding color photography, concise maps and in-depth information on the culture, history and attractions of New Mexico. It includes archival photographs, practical travel information, and essays on Georgia O'Keeffe, Indian pueblos and pottery. (USW208, $21.95)
  Compass Guide New Mexico
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)
  Desert Solitaire
The Spell of New Mexico  •  Tony Hillerman
ANTHOLOGY •  1984 •  PAPER  • 105 PAGES
A selection of 12 thoughtful essays on the New Mexico state of mind by great writers, including C.G. Jung, Mary Austin, D.H. Lawrence and Lawrence Clark Powell. Hillerman succeeds in communicating the lure of the desert Southwest in this wonderful, literate introduction to the state. (USW134, $14.95)
  The Spell of New Mexico
Recreational Map of New Mexico  •  GTR Mapping
2000 •  MAP
A very good fold-out map of New Mexico at a scale of 1:800,000 showing topography, parks and wilderness areas, cities, towns and roads. With mileage chart, index and points of interest. (USW209, $3.95)
  Recreational Map of New Mexico



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Bandelier National Monument Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  A detailed map of Bandelier National Monument at a scale of 1:29,000. (USW142, $9.95)
 
 
Santa Fe Map  •  Rand McNally Maps    •  A laminated, fold-up map of Santa Fe, shown at a scale of 1:37,000. (SWU16, $7.95)
 
 
Eyewitness Top Ten Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring the best natural and cultural attractions of the region. (USW482, $12.00)
 
 
Journey to the High Southwest, A Traveler's Guide to Santa Fe and the Four Corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah  •  Robert Casey   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An outstanding guide, featuring first-hand observations and step-by-step narrative accounts of travel by auto, raft, or foot throughout the Four Corners, including the Lowry Pueblo Ruins, Canyonlands, Monument Valley and Taos. (USW08, $19.95)
 
 
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest  •  Stephen Plog  •  Amy Elizabeth Grey   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An illustrated introduction to the ancient cultures that first inhabited the pueblos and cliff dwellings of the American Southwest. (USW131, $24.95)
 
 
If Mountains Die, A New Mexico Memoir  •  John Treadwell Nichols  •  William Davis   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A visual survey of Taos old from the perspective of a 30-year Taos resident, who's still as in love with the land now as he was when the book was first published in 1979. (USW216, $19.95)
 
 
New Mexico, An Interpretive History  •  Marc Simmons   • HISTORY  •  A history of New Mexico following its path from Spanish conquest to statehood. (USW219, $15.95)
 
 
Pueblo Profiles, Cultural Identity Through Centuries of Change  •  Joe S. Sando  •  Regis Pecos   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A history of the origin and development of the 19 Pueblo Nations, which are scattered across northern New Mexico. Sando includes profiles of key Pueblo leaders, maps and many black-and-white photographs. (USW238, $14.95)
 
 
Santa Fe, History of an Ancient City  •  David Grant Noble   • HISTORY  •  A history of Santa Fe to the mid-nineteenth century, featuring essays by ten scholars and hundreds of archival photographs, drawings and maps. (SWU15, $19.95)
 
 
The Making of the Atomic Bomb  •  Richard Rhodes   • HISTORY  •  From the discovery of the nucleus to the making of atomic bomb, this Pulitzer Prize winning book tackles the people, discoveries and places of the Atomic Age in spellbinding detail. (USW231, $20.00)
 
 
Edge of Taos Desert, An Escape to Reality  •  Mabel Dodge Luhan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  First published in 1937, this story reveals the spiritual awakening the New York socialite experienced through Taos, the Pueblo Indians and Indian Tony Luhan, whom she later married. (USW127, $21.95)
 
 
Portrait of an Artist, A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe  •  Laura Lisle   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A comprehensive and insightful biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Lisle shows how O'Keeffe was both changed and inspired by her Southwestern surroundings. (USW221, $21.95)
 
 
Death Comes for the Archbishop  •  Willa Cather   • LITERATURE  •  Based in part on the life of Bishop Jean Baptiste L'Amy, this classic novel of missionary life in New Mexico is rich in the texture of Old Santa Fe and New Mexican landscapes. (USW79, $11.95)
 
 
The Great Taos Bank Robbery, And Other Indian Country Affairs  •  Tony Hillerman   • LITERATURE  •  Nine fast-reading short stories based on daily life in contemporary New Mexico, written by the author of best-selling mysteries set in the Southwest. (USW132, $13.00)
 
 
The Laughing Boy  •  Oliver La Farge   • LITERATURE  •  An ethnographer and archaeologist, La Farge captures the flavor of the landscapes and ways of life in Northern Arizona in the early 20th century in this Pulitzer Prize-winning short novel. (USW240, $10.95)
 
 
The Milagro Beanfield War  •  John Treadwell Nichols  •  Rini Templeton   • LITERATURE  •  A charming novel about struggles between farmers and water barons in a small New Mexican town. It went from a local favorite to a cult classic to a major motion picture. (USW222, $17.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
 
 

 
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