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The San Luis Valley : sand dunes and sandhill cranes / text by Susan J. Tweit ; photographs by Glenn Oakley.

Title: The San Luis Valley : sand dunes and sandhill cranes / text by Susan J. Tweit ; photographs by Glenn Oakley.
Author: Tweit, Susan J.
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Oakley, Glenn, 1955-

Description

x, 78 p. : ill.; 17 cm.

Summary

"Colorado's San Luis Valley is not a place for the timid. Sizzling hot in summer, frigid cold in winter, this huge landscape is humbling in its openness, a place defined by the rhythms of nature - and by the thrust and parry of male courting female in the ritual dance of sandhill cranes. These majestic birds arrive by the thousands twice a year to feed, rest, and socialize in the valley's wetlands - invisible except from the air - and their cries temper the constant wind."
"Susan Tweit guides readers through this land of sand dunes and sandhill cranes, describing its natural features and tracing its human history from buffalo hunters and conquistadors to Hispanic farming communities and UFO observatories. And in stunning images, photographer Glenn Oakley brings his intimate feel for light and landscape to portraying not only the subtle beauty of this high-desert sanctuary but also the grandeur of the cranes in flight." "As an intimate look at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and the San Luis Valley, this book reveals a desert place as seductive and sobering as existence itself."--Jacket.

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Desert places

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Desert places

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^^2005005823

OCLC

58386511

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library