Eliot Porter Livres

Glen Canyon, now Lake Powell, is rediscovered through wonderful color images by Eliott Porter.

"One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West."

A classic book of nature photography, this large-format volume is designed to convey the spirit of American nature as so sensitively described by Thoreau. Eliot Porter, one of America's foremost nature photographers, blends short excerpts from Thoreau's Walden and many other works with 72 full-color photographs that perfectly reproduce the writer's sense of quiet drama.

A unique, stunning union of art and science that explores a new path for understanding nature's wildness and the particular patterns and harmonies lurking there. 100 full-color photos.

The artistry of a master photographer transports readers directly into the natural world of North American bird species, depicting the beauty and behavior of birds in flight or repose.

A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminationsabout the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming."—from American PlacesFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The master photographer captures the awesome beauty of this last continent to yield its secrets to mankind.