|
 |
BACKROADS
Santa Fe & Taos
|
READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO3834. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
 |
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) |
|
|
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) |
|
|
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) |
|
|
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) |
|
|
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) |
|
|
|