Color Country: Touring the Colorado Plateau

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Summary: Astoundingly beautiful
Review: I bought this book hoping for an inexpensive picturesque coffee table volume. What a suprise to find it stimulating reading as well as being filled with captivating photographs of a quality that could be described as Ansel Adams in color. For anyone who has visited the Colorado plateau or wishes to visit, included practical hints help planning an itinerary. As well, the clues for the best views are as valuable to a sightseer as to a photographer. This information alone guarantee a successful trip. This book is a must have.

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Summary: A Different Guidebook, Immersion Guide
Review: I write guidebooks, I tell you where to stay, where to eat and what to see. Susan's book teaches the reader how to immerse ones self in the Colorado Plateau.

The book is a guide for the hearty types who go beyond the paved road. Don't expect to pull off the interstate to duplicate the excellent photos in this book, not a chance. Susan clearly loves the arches, canyons and rock formations she describes. She has traveled the mesas, camped near the pinacles and watched the sunrise, as she sipped a cup of campfire coffee. This is the real deal.

So if you want to see the beauty of the Colorado Plateau, get yourself a copy of this book, air out your sleeping bag, find your old Coleman stove and take a two week trip back in time. Where is that old V.W. bus I had back in the sixties?

Rating:
Summary: A Different Guidebook, Immersion Guide
Review: I write guidebooks, I tell you where to stay, where to eat and what to see. Susan's book teaches the reader how to immerse ones self in the Colorado Plateau.

The book is a guide for the hearty types who go beyond the paved road. Don't expect to pull off the interstate to duplicate the excellent photos in this book, not a chance. Susan clearly loves the arches, canyons and rock formations she describes. She has traveled the mesas, camped near the pinacles and watched the sunrise, as she sipped a cup of campfire coffee. This is the real deal.

So if you want to see the beauty of the Colorado Plateau, get yourself a copy of this book, air out your sleeping bag, find your old Coleman stove and take a two week trip back in time. Where is that old V.W. bus I had back in the sixties?

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Summary: An unusually literary photographic guide
Review: I'm rarely moved to comment on a guidebook, and certainly not in regard to the literary quality of a volume that I acquired initially for its souvenir value as a photographic guide, but this is an exception. I recently made a long-hoped-for solo trip to "color country," and found the experience awesome, in the genuine sense of that term. Susan Neider's verbal characterization of the area, its features, and how it makes her feel captured my own experience brilliantly and movingly. Personally I can't wait to go back to explore, because I only had a little taste of a region that I sense can be profound as well as beautiful. Neider has very effectively reinforced that notion, and provided a lovely and knowledgeable companion for the journey.

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Summary: Color Country: Touring the Colorado Plateau
Review: If it was ever obvious that an author loved her subject,it is clearly evident in Susan Neider's breathtaking photos and equally stunning prose. This work reveals the author's profound appreciation of the magnificent Colorado Plateau. The red rocks have never been redder nor their contrasts with the deep blue sky more pronounced, than on this photographic journey. Cartographer Dan Levine's maps are simple yet concise and easy to interpret. Before you tour this extraordinary region, or if you simply choose to explore it from your favorite chair (move over, Archie Bunker!), Susan Neider's book is a must-read/see.

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Summary: Color Country: Touring the Colorado Plateau
Review: If it was ever obvious that an author loved her subject,it is clearly evident in Susan Neider's breathtaking photos and equally stunning prose. This work reveals the author's profound appreciation of the magnificent Colorado Plateau. The red rocks have never been redder nor their contrasts with the deep blue sky more pronounced, than on this photographic journey. Cartographer Dan Levine's maps are simple yet concise and easy to interpret. Before you tour this extraordinary region, or if you simply choose to explore it from your favorite chair (move over, Archie Bunker!), Susan Neider's book is a must-read/see.

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Summary: It's about time...
Review: Some guidebooks provide technical data, some provide a general overview, but not until Color Country has anyone combined the two extremes in so imminenetly usable a form, accessible and valuable to such a wide audience. The photography is gallery grade and inspiring; the information is succinct and accurate and the little camera icons make you want to load up on film and hit the road.
A groundbreaker in guidebooks and destined to become a classic.