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A Walk Around the Horizon: Discovering New Mexico´s Mountains of the Four Directions
Tom Harmer
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, , maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; WSZG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826353641
SKU
V9780826353641
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About Tom Harmer
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.
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