Description
Containing the creator’s stunning photography, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning creator Annie Proulx, creator of “Brokeback Mountain,” an afterword by environmental historian Thomas R. Dunlap, and a new preface by the creator, this twentieth anniversary edition makes to be had to a new generation of readers Flores’s knowledgeable and heartfelt narrative of the canyons and badlands of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma and Texas. He evokes the history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history, and literature.
“Caprock Canoynlands assists in keeping its place on our bookshelves . . . for its exploration of a deeply human activity: the seek for the wonderful thing about the earth, the depth and strength of our ties to it, and the ways those appear in a particular landscape . . . here illuminated by love.”–from the afterword by Thomas R. Dunlap