A Walk Around the Horizon
Discovering New Mexico's Mountains of the Four Directions
Seiten
2013
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-5364-1 (ISBN)
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-5364-1 (ISBN)
North of Santa Fe, the New Mexico landscape is framed by four high mountains. Although they are sacred to the Tewa Pueblo Indians, the four peaks are in different bureaucratic and cultural zones, which means that each peak attracts visitors but few non-Indian travellers visit more than one of the mountains.
Tom Harmer’s chronicle of climbing all four of these mountains in one summer—Sandia to the south, Chicoma to the west, Canjilon to the north, and Truchas to the east—offers a unique view of a montane forest unlike any in the world, where mountain, plain, and desert biota converge. Outdoor enthusiasts and armchair travellers alike will relish Harmer’s precise account of his backpacking adventure, in which this sixty-two-year-old Anglo discovers the realities of complicated cultural legacies ecological challenges, and human foibles counterpoised against his own strengths and frailties.
Tom Harmer’s chronicle of climbing all four of these mountains in one summer—Sandia to the south, Chicoma to the west, Canjilon to the north, and Truchas to the east—offers a unique view of a montane forest unlike any in the world, where mountain, plain, and desert biota converge. Outdoor enthusiasts and armchair travellers alike will relish Harmer’s precise account of his backpacking adventure, in which this sixty-two-year-old Anglo discovers the realities of complicated cultural legacies ecological challenges, and human foibles counterpoised against his own strengths and frailties.
Tom Harmer is also the author of Going Native and What I’ve Always Known: Living in Full Awareness of the Earth. He lives in northern New Mexico.
| Zusatzinfo | 1 map |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albuquerque, NM |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8263-5364-9 / 0826353649 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8263-5364-1 / 9780826353641 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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