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Moon Handbook New Mexico
Zora O'Neill
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 320 PAGES
This practical guide in the Moon series is packed not only with travel necessities (hotels, restaurants, sights), but also with a good overview of history, culture and destinations throughout New Mexico.
(USW613, $17.95)
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
2007 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. Two Sides. 37x29 inches.
(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)
North Central New Mexico Map
High Highroad Maps
A map of North Central New Mexico at a scale of 1:500,000.
(USW125, $3.95)
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)
Compass Guide Santa Fe
Lawrence Cheek
GUIDEBOOK
This wonderfully written handbook features attractive color photography and detailed information on Santa Fe.
(USW129, $20.95)
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, $14.00)
Journey to the High Southwest
Robert Casey
GUIDEBOOK
The best guide to Santa Fe & the Four Corners (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah).
(USW08, $19.95)
Made in the Southwest: A Shopper's Guide to the Region's Best Native American, Hispanic and Western Craft Traditions
Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK
A shopper's guide by writer and art historian Laura Morelli to all that is handmade and beautiful in the Southwest's Hispanic, Native American and Western traditions. With a state-by-state guide to artisans and stores and 80 color illustrations.
(SWU209, $24.95)
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
Stephen Plog
Amy Elizabeth Grey
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This illustrated introduction provides an in-depth look at the ancient cultures that first inhabited the pueblos and cliff dwellings of the American Southwest. Organized chronologically, it features hundreds of maps, mostly black-and-white photographs and site diagrams.
(USW131, $24.95)
New Mexico, An Interpretive History
Marc Simmons
HISTORY
A history of New Mexico following its path from Spanish conquest to statehood.
(USW219, $15.95)
Santa Fe, History of an Ancient City
David Grant Noble
HISTORY
A revised edition of of this classic 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)
Telling New Mexico: A New History
HISTORY
This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines.
(SWU273, $29.95)
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, $21.00)
Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe
Mary Anne Redding
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A history of photography's role in documenting and defining Santa Fe, this book is enhanced by 276 images drawn from the private collections of noted photographers including William Henry Jackson, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
(SWU272, $50.00)
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, $32.95)
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo A. Anaya
LITERATURE
The first-person tale of Antonio, a Chicano boy whose life is changed when a mystical woman named Ultima comes to live with his family.
(USW264, $13.95)
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, $12.00)
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, $12.95)
The Man Who Killed the Deer
Frank Waters
LITERATURE
A heartfelt tale of a Pueblo Indian in New Mexico. Waters captures the difficult position of his protagonist Martiniano, straddled between his tribe and white society.
(USW265, $12.95)
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, $18.00)
Tularosa
Michael McGarrity
MYSTERY
The disappearance of a friend's son at the White Sands Missile Range brings former Santa Fe police officer Kevin Kerney out of retirement in this crackerjack mystery, the first in a popular series.
(SWU201, $13.95)
New Mexico Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species
James Kavanagh
NATURAL HISTORY
A handy fold-up card featuring color illustrations of common plants, animals and reptiles of New Mexico.
(SWU203, $5.95)
A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians
Robert Stebbins
FIELD GUIDE
The definitive field guide, with a special section on Baja's endemic species.
(FG08, $22.00)
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)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic
FIELD GUIDE
From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry.
(FG09, $24.00)
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)
Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province, Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses
William Dunmire
Gail Tierney
FIELD GUIDE
An accessible guide to the diverse plant communities of the Pueblo people.
(USW09, $22.50)
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