The High Sierra of California BOOK

By Gary Snyder and Tom Killion Winner of the California Book Award Medal. The High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers. Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut techniques, Killion has created stunning visual images of the Sierra that focus on the backcountry above nine thousand feet, accessible only on foot. Accompanying these riveting images are the journals of Gary Snyder, chronicling more than forty years of travels through the High Sierra backcountry. Paperback, 11.5 x 9, with 23 full-color woodcuts and b&w illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Reviews “For a fibrillatingly lovely look at the High Sierra, that corner of the state that stays the same while all the rest of California convulses, the book to get this year is Tom Killion and Gary Snyder’s art book, The High Sierra of California. …It is to other coffee-table books what Jamaican Blue Mountain is to other