The Bright Edge: A Guide to the National Parks of the Colorado Plateau

Description

Author: Trimble, Stephen

Publisher: Museum of Northern Arizona Press (Flagstaff, AZ)

Pub Date: 1979

Binding: Paperback

Condition:   Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Sun-fading to front cover bottom edge and spine.  Previous owner’s name, date, and location on upper corner title page.  Some pencil marks through approximately the first half of the book.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  The Colorado Plateau covers and area of about 130,000 square miles through the Four Corners states.  The first portion of the book covers most of the northern monuments, under the heading “The Land”–Dinosaur down to Glen Canyon, then down into Arizona for the Painted Desert and Grand Canyon.  The second section moves into the southern and eastern monuments–Mesa Verde, Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, Aztec Ruins–but is divided into Anasazi, Sinagua, and Fremont.  The final section covers El Morro, Pipe Spring, and Hubbell Trading Post.  All color photography.  This was probably sold in every gift shop throughout the region.   Think, in Abbey’s words, “rock and sun.”