The High Sierra of California
Paperback, 11.5 x 9, with 23 full-color woodcuts and b&w illustrations throughout, 128 pages.
ISBN: 9781890771997.
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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.
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 coffee.” David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle
“Sometimes stately and solemn, sometimes mysterious and mystical, sometimes rollicking and even slightly ribald—[these prints] are the visual equivalent of Snyder’s poetry and the real glory of the book.” Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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