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Give the reward of the Nationwide Parks with this gorgeous espresso desk e-book: probably the most whole images e-book approximately the entire 61 US Nationwide Parks, and the one one with region notes for each and every photograph. Winner of 6 Nationwide e-book awards.
QT Luong has up to date and accelerated his Nationwide parks e-book through including 24 extra pages, 28 new places, and revising the entire maps. Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey Thru The usa’s Nationwide Parks will pay tribute to the tens of millions of acres of secure wasteland and historic historical past in all our u . s . a .’s 61 Nationwide parks, Together with the 2 certain because the award-profitable first variation was once printed in 2016 and turned into an wireless vintage.
Luong, who’s featured in Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s documentary The Nationwide Parks: The usa’s Perfect Concept, is probably the most prolific photographer running within the Nationwide parks and the one one to have made massive-layout images in each and every of them. In an odyssey that spanned greater than 1 / 4 century and 300 visits, Luong centered his lenses on iconic landscapes and infrequently noticed far off perspectives, supplying his adventure on this luxurious array of greater than 600 breathtaking photographs.
Accompanying the number of scenic masterpieces is a information that comes with maps of each and every park, in addition to prolonged captions that element the place and the way the pictures had been made. Designed to encourage guests to connect to the parks and invite photographers to re-create those landscapes, the information additionally supplies anecdotal observations that provide context to the images and produce the sheer scope of Luong’s ordinary odyssey.
Together with a foreword through creator and documentary filmmaker Dayton Duncan, Valuable Lands is a wealthy visible excursion of the U.S. Nationwide Parks and a useful information from a photographer who hiked-or paddled, dived, skied, snowshoed, and climbed-each and every park, taking pictures in a wide variety of terrain, in all seasons, and always of day. QT Luong’s undying gallery of the country’s so much respected landscapes beckons to nature enthusiasts, armchair vacationers, and images lovers alike, maintaining The usa’s herbal wonders inside achieve.
Includes all 61 Nationwide parks: Acadia Nationwide Park, Arches Nationwide Park, Badlands Nationwide Park, Massive Bend Nationwide Park, Biscayne Nationwide Park, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison Nationwide Park, Bryce Canyon Nationwide Park, Canyonlands Nationwide Park, Capitol Reef Nationwide Park, Carlsbad Caverns Nationwide Park, Channel Islands Nationwide Park, Congaree Nationwide Park, Crater Lake Nationwide Park, Cuyahoga Valley Nationwide Park, Dying Valley Nationwide Park, Denali Nationwide Park, Dry Tortugas Nationwide Park, Everglades Nationwide Park, Gates of the Arctic Nationwide Park, Gateway Arch Nationwide Park, Glacier Nationwide Park, Glacier Bay Nationwide Park, Grand Canyon Nationwide Park, Grand Teton Nationwide Park, Nice Basin Nationwide Park, Nice Sand Dunes Nationwide Park, Nice Smoky Mountains Nationwide Park, Guadalupe Mountains Nationwide Park, Haleakala Nationwide Park, Hawaii Volcanoes Nationwide Park, Sizzling Springs Nationwide Park, Indiana Dunes Nationwide Park, Isle Royale Nationwide Park, Joshua Tree Nationwide Park, Katmai Nationwide Park, Kenai Fjords Nationwide Park, Kings Canyon Nationwide Park, Kobuk Valley Nationwide Park, Lake Clark Nationwide Park, Lassen Volcanic Nationwide Park, Colossal Cave Nationwide Park, Mesa Verde Nationwide Park, Mount Rainier Nationwide Park, Nationwide Park of American Samoa, North Cascades Nationwide Park, Olympic Nationwide Park, Petrified Wooded area Nationwide Park, Redwood Nationwide Park, Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park, Saguaro Nationwide Park, Sequoia Nationwide Park, Shenandoah Nationwide Park, Theodore Roosevelt Nationwide Park, Virgin Islands Nationwide Park, Voyageurs Nationwide Park, Wind Cave Nationwide Park, Wrangell – St Elias Nationwide Park, Yellowstone Nationwide Park, Yosemite Nationwide Park, Zion Nationwide Park.
