A Photographer's Journey through America's Desert Southwest

John Annerino, renowned photographer and author of America's Southwest and Old Mexico, risked life and limb to venture on foot into the most remote, abandoned, and chillingly silent tracts of the Painted, Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts on both sides of the U.S. and Mexican border. His quest: to capture desert light from the highest summits, the starkest deserts, and the deepest canyons; and to convey to those who dare not follow in his footsteps the primal beauty of these impossibly rugged, uninhabited lands—these despoblados—in evocative essays and haunting photographs.
Regarded long-ago by ruthless Spanish conquistadors and gold-seeking settlers as Terra Incógnita, this region remains largely the same as it was while inhabited by indigenous peoples, who viewed its luminous landscape through a very different lens. To them, the beautiful sierras and captivating stone hoodoos were sacred and familiar, and revered for their omniscient majesty. Annerino uncannily portrays this awe-striking, sublime landscape through both sets of eyes in Desert Light.

John Annerino's photography has been published in Life, Time, the New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, and many other publications. He is the author of the Countryman titles Canyon Country, Grand Canyon Wild, The Photographer's Guide to Canyon Country, and The Photographer's Guide to the Grand Canyon.

$29.95 (Can. $37.50)
ISBN-10: 0-88150-682-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-88150-682-2
10.5 x 8.75, 128 pages, Hardcover, Full-color throughout

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