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The Ahwahnee—Yosemite’s Grand Hotel
by Keith S. Walklet.
It has been called the finest hotel in the national park system. Surrounded by
three-thousand-foot granite cliffs and forests of immense pines in the heart
of California’s Yosemite Valley, The Ahwahnee was built to attract visitors of
wealth and means at a time when American society was developing a love
affair with the automobile.
The monumental hotel of stone, timber, concrete, and steel remains a remarkable
achievement, a rare convergence of art and vision, combining the talents of public
servants, architects, engineers, designers, and craftsmen.
This is the dramatic story of this remarkable hotel, designated as a national historic
monument, detailed from conception to completion to contemporary times in a
carefully researched narrative by author/photographer Keith S. Walklet. Illustrating
the volume are some 50 historic photographs and over 70 new color images. The book is 64 pages long, 9 by 12
inches, and case bound with dust jacket. $19.95; member price $16.96
Marking the Sparrow’s Fall—The Making of the American West
by Wallace Stegner, edited and with a preface by Page Stegner.
In this, the first collection published since Wallace Stegner’s death in 1993, his son Page
has annotated and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in books, a
little-known novella, and Wallace Stegner’s most powerful and well-known essays on the
American West, which held sway in Stegner’s vivid prose.
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But
not humble ones. . . . Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is
a land to mark the sparrow’s fall.”—from Wolf Willow.
Each magical piece of writing collected here reveals the stylistic grace, humorous outlook,
and intellectual rigor that earned Stegner his enormous readership and fame. This
is as complete and comprehensive a statement as we are ever likely to have about what
it means to be a westerner, about what it means to know ourselves as part of the natural
world and competent to belong to it. The volume is 360 pages long, 5.5 by 8 inches, and
paperback. Copyright 1998, Henry Holt. $15; member price $12.75
Wilderness Act 40th Anniversary T-Shirt
from a wood block by Chiura Obata.
This year Americans everywhere are celebrating forty years of Designated
Wilderness in the United States—a true American legacy. In honor of this
anniversary, the Yosemite Association has developed a special 40th
anniversary t-shirt to call attention to and celebrate this milestone.
The back of the mocha brown, garment-washed tee features a full-color
reproduction from a wood block print by Chiura Obata entitled “Clouds, Upper
Lyell Trail” and dated 1930. The type above and below the image reads: “Sierra
Nevada Wilderness—Celebrating Forty Years of Protection.” The front of the shirt
is printed in brown and green with the national Wilderness Act 40th Anniversary
logo that reads: “Celebrating America’s Wilderness, 1964-2004.”
The 100% cotton, pre-shrunk, garment-washed t-shirt by Anvil is mocha brown
in color and comes in both short-sleeved and long-sleeved versions. Please specify
size S–XXL and sleeve type. Short-sleeved tee is $16; member price $13.60.
Long-sleeved tee is $20; member price $17