Arches: The Story Behind The Scenery (David W. Johnson) Price: $9.99 Publisher: KC Publications () ISBN: 0-88714-002-5 Slowly, often grain by grain, the erosive forces of water and frost sculpted the Entrada Sandstone of the Arches landscape into a fantastic collection of rock spans, spires, and cliffs. Arches National Park is a jewel on the Colorado Plateau. And while the stone monuments seem permanent and durable, they are a part of a fragile landscape that scars easily. Organisms here have adapted to the vagaries of both biting cold and blistering hot environments. The land itself has been shaped without the efforts of humans. As people have for thousands of years, we come to Arches as visitors—temporary guests.

Bryce Canyon National Park (Greer K. Chesher) Price: $9.99 Publisher: Sierra Press () ISBN: 1-58071-019-0 Bryce Canyon National Park seems an oasis of beauty and stillness in a vast desert. And so it is. But Bryce is also embedded in one of the most spectacular regions in the world. Within a 250-mile radius lie 12 national parks, 14 national monuments, seven tribal parks, 17 wilderness areas, seven state parks, and six national forests. Although these areas are clusters on a map, each is distinct. Zion National Park reveals massive redrock cliffs; nearby Cedar Breaks National Monument balances slender hoodoos like a tray of delicate china. Petrified Forest National Park exposes an ancient forest teeming with dinosaurs, while Pipe Spring National Monument guards a pioneer fort. State parks brim with blazing coral pink sand dunes, Kodachrome landscapes, and wild goblins. Traders still trade in historic posts, and the enduring presence of native peoples lingers in the land.

Canyon de Chelly: The Story Behind The Scenery (Charles Supplee, Douglas and Barbara Anderson) Price: $9.99 Publisher: KC Publications () ISBN: 0-88714-042-4 In northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navajo Nation, lies on of the most spectacular of all the amazing canyon regions of the American Southwest. This is the network of deeply sculpted sandstone passages that encompasses Canyon de Chelly and its tributary canyons. These breathtakingly beautiful sheer walls and dramatically eroded formations reveal a threefold story: the geological record, witch spans untold millennia; the archaeological evidences, which document canyon occupation from almost the beginning if the Christian era; and the centuries-old history of the proud people who inhabit the canyons today.

Chaco: A Cultural Legacy (Michal Strutin) Price: $9.99 Publisher: Western National Parks Association () ISBN: 1877856452 For six centuries huge prehistoric buildings lay deserted and undisturbed, buried under sand and silt in a remote canyon in northwestern New Mexico. Now uncovered, these four- and five-story "great houses" are an incredible legacy of a populous ancient society that continues to amaze all who visit this national park site.

Grand Canyon (Stewart Aitchison) Price: $9.99 Publisher: Sierra Press () ISBN: 1-58071-007-7 Following his first visit here in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon to be “ the one great site which every American should see.” This book will explore the natural phenomenon known as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. This book also contains colorful maps commissioned and created by Darlece Cleveland. These maps are to be used to help orient the visitor and illuminate the size and scope of one of America’s most important waterways. This publication presents the breathtaking imagery of many of America’s top landscape photographers. Their photographs are presented with stunning color and in a size appropriate for such a grand and beloved subject.

Monument Valley: The Story Behind The Scenery (K.C. DenDooven) Price: $9.99 Publisher: KC Publications () ISBN: 0-88714219-2 Everything in life is a matter of perspective. Here we see dramatic sandstone monuments. To the Navajo the valley is home. To the first-time visitor it is one of the most awesome spectacles of nature he has ever seen. To those of use who have been here many times it is a great place to revisit again and again, a place of beauty and memories – yet a place where we know there is always something more to see and enjoy. Monument Valley is a land of people, of formations, of mystery and mood. In the winter it can snow enough to literally stop you in your tracks. IN the summer it can be very unforgiving to those who do not bring enough water.

Zion National Park (Nicky Leach) Price: $9.99 Publisher: Sierra Press () ISBN: 1-58071-020-4 Above the valley, the domes, spires, and temples of Zion seem to raise great angular heads to the heavens, their time-worn craggy faces streaked and etched by falling water and year-in, year-out exposure to the weather. “There is and eloquence to their forms which stirs the imagination with a singular power and kindles in the mind,” wrote geologist Clarence Dutton in 1880. “Nothing can exceed the wondrous beauty of Zion in the nobility and beauty of the sculptures there is no comparison.”