Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands by Barbara Kingsolver - October 2002

Washington, DC: National Geographic, October 2002. Hardcover. Very Good book in an As New jacket. Gift inscription to title page, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 192 pages. Profusely illustrated with 100 color photographs.

America's virgin lands are scattered in often small, sometimes barely known pockets across the continent. These are the remnants that remind us of what wildness once meant - and what will be lost if it disappears. Barbara Kingsolver brings her passion for the wilderness to bear in this striking book. Trained as a biologist, Kingsolver writes movingly about the continent's virgin pockets of wetlands, forests, coasts, grasslands, and deserts, the threats against them and what they need to survive. Colot and hand-tinted infrared photographs capture the essence of these diverse bioregions creating a painterly portrait of wild landscapes that gives this an art book appeal. The images take you from the tallgrass prairies of Kansas and Nevada to the Arctic tundra of Alaska, from the endangered coral reefs off the Florida Keys to the Pacific-pounded coast of Oregon, from the deserts of the Southwest to the sky-piercing redwoods of California.