Canyons of Color: Utahs Slickrock Wildlands

by Gary Paul Nabhan, Caroline Wilson, Jeff Garton (Photographer)

In this beautifully written and photographed guide, a husband-and-wife team of expert naturalists vividly chronicle canyon country, from its hidden trails, desert gardens, and Navajo, Anasazi, and Ito-Aztecan archeological sites to its animal life--some of the wildest and weirdest on the planet.

132 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called "the father of the local food movement" by Utne Reader, Mother Earth News, Carleton College and Unity College. Gary is also an orchard-keeper, wild forager and Ecumenical Franciscan brother in his hometown of Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border. For his writing and collaborative conservation work, he has been honored with a MacArthur "genius" award, a Southwest Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, the Vavilov Medal, and lifetime achievement awards from the Quivira Coalition and Society for Ethnobiology.

--from the author's website