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Vishnu Temple Press
P O Box 30821, Flagstaff AZ 86003 Phone & fax (928) 556 0742 info@vishnutemplepress.com Vishnu Temple Press publishes and distributes non-fiction books about the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau. IF THE BOOKS ARE TO BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA please click on the add to cart button here for an additional shipping charge |
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Nancy Muleady-Mecham, the author of Park Ranger and Park Ranger Sequel, has now published her first children's book,
Out Of Thin Air. Scroll down for details.
Wanda Eilts, author of Floating Hogans in Monument Valley is collecting stories and information for her next book which will be about the marina at Halls Crossing, particularly about Jerry and Tena Sampson. If you would like to talk to her, please phone or email us at the above number or address and we will put you in touch with her. Got a Grand Canyon backpacking tale of your own to share? John Gibbs needs three more stories for the collection he's putting together for us. He's looking for: first (or last) visits to Grand Canyon; stories about how or why this place grabs us so, and why we return again and again; how Grand Canyon changed your life; tales of your experiences and interaction with Grand Canyon’s geography, flora and fauna. But no plain old trip reports please. John has room for two more stories. So write them and send them in! For the Submissions Release form for the Grand Canyon Backpackers Anthology (working title) click here then start writing. Be aware we can only accept credit cards via this website, not over the phone. Either use the PayPal buttons next to each book or mail in a check, details below. You may order on-line by using your major credit card. On-line payments are processed by PayPal, an independent firm not associated with Vishnu Temple Press. OUT OF THIN AIR A Story of Big Trees by Nancy Muleady-Mecham
PARK RANGER SEQUEL More True Stories from a Ranger's Career in America's National Parks by Nancy Eileen Muleady-Mecham
John H. Riffey The Last Old-Time Ranger by Jean Luttrell
FLOATING HOGANS IN MONUMENT VALLEY Remembering the First Marina in Navajoland by Wanda Morlan Eilts
QUICKSAND AND BLUE SPRINGS Exploring the Little Colorado River Gorge by Stephen West Cole
Arizona, Flagstaff: Babbits Backcountry Outfitters, Aspen Sports, Mountain Sports, Peace Surplus, Barnes & Noble Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon Association South Rim stores Tucson: Summit Hut on Speedway Colorado, Durango: Maria's Bookshop Pagosa Springs: Moonlight Books Utah, Kanab: Willow Creek Books Moab: Arches Book Company, Back of Beyond Bookstore GOURMET CAMPING CUISINE Menus for rafting, canoeing, camping, and RVers by Marilynn Murphey Machin
Arizona, Flagstaff: Babbits Backcountry Outfitters, Peace Surplus Colorado, Durango: Maria's Bookshop Utah, Kanab: Willow Creek Books Mexican Hat: Valle's Store Moab: Back of Beyond Bookstore GUIDE TO THE SAN JUAN RIVER Montezuma Creek to Clay Hills Crossing, Utah by Duwain Whitis and Tom Martin OUT OF STOCK UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2009
Guide to the Green River in Desolation and Gray Canyons by Duwain Whitis and Barbara Vinson
Green River and Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument by Duwain Whitis and Barbara Vinson
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Scott Baxter is a climber, hiker and lover of the Southwest deserts and mountains. He is also a poet who expresses his appreciation of nature and his interaction with it in his words. This is a collection
of poems from his first two books, Where All Suns Enter and Rock in Bodies, together with new poems.
5" x 8", 80 pages, 0-9674595-7-5.
INTERNAL COMBUSTION The runner's every foot- fall is to earth what the bow drill is to fire: each breath drawn makes of the soul smoldering tinder, life a slow going-up in flames. |
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What does it take to be a Park Ranger?
Stamina, calmness, a sense of humor and training in as many fields as possible judging by these stories from Nancy Muleady-Mecham's twenty-year career as a ranger in several parks around the country. Her first assignments were in Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Some were just one season in places such as Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and others longer such as her many years at the Grand Canyon. She tells us about the different skills she learned and how she used them to save lives, retrieve situations from the brink of disaster and deal with whatever came her way. She also describes some of the sublime benefits of living and working in a National Park. 0-9674595-4-0/978-0-9674595-4-7. 5.5" x 8", 244 pages, softcover, 8 pages of color photos. These sites also accepts credit card orders for Park Ranger Amazon.com Five Quail Books Barnes and Noble Yosemite Association Sequoia Natural History Association Great Smoky Mountain Association REI.com Grand Canyon Association Mindbird Maps and Books |
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$17.95 If you are interested in Grand Canyon Wilderness issues, please visit River Runners For Wilderness See Reviews |
Ever wonder why it takes years to get a permit for your own Grand Canyon trip?
Jeff Ingram, fresh from the battle over the Grand Canyon Dams in the 1960s, turned his attention to gaining wilderness protection for the Grand Canyon. The 1964 Wilderness Act had been passed not long before and the Grand Canyon including the Colorado River had become "potential" wilderness. This book describes how the river became the sticking point and all that has been done over the last 30+ years to make the definition happen - and to stop it happening. Using source materials from various libraries, depositories and interviews, Jeff tells the story from his vantage point as a participant on the side of wilderness. The river runners, both self-guided and commercial, the Park Service and other government officials, politicians and environmentalists all played their parts in pushing, pulling, slowing, speeding up, articulating and obfuscating the issues. There's a wealth of detail here and, with the Colorado River Management Plan in progress again, even a quick skim of the book will help you recognize the circle we're all trudging round again. Read it and react! 6" x 9", 496 pages includes maps, index, source notes. 0-9674595-3-2. These sites also accept credit card orders for Hijacking A River Boulder Outdoor Center Five Quail Books Amazon.com River Runners for Wilderness Grand Canyon Association Canyon REO (800) 637 4604 |
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John Wesley Powell's men called the Escalante River the "Unknown River." It was the last river to be charted on the maps of the U.S. lower 48 states and it still remains quite remote today. The author recalls a wild and lovely place partially drowned by Lake Powell.Ann's essays and poems evoke the solitude, beauty and harshness of the remote country along the Escalante River in southern Utah. Her many travels through the country allow her to relax into it and let is speak through her.
Ann Walka is a naturalist, museum trip-guide and poet. She introduced President Clinton at the ceremony to announce the creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Soft cover 103 pages.
0-9718892-0-1. These sites also accept credit card orders for Walking the Unknown River Five Quail Books Amazon.com Barnes and Noble Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association |
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Ann Weiler Walka has created a map of the heart through her poetry and it is beautifully
contained in Waterlines. For
travelers of the Colorado Plateau and particularly those choosing to immerse
themselves in the San Juan River, this
collection is a trustworthy and evocative guide written and lived by a woman
who understands the desert as an oasis for our spirits.
— Terry Tempest Williams Author of Refuge Soft cover, 5.5" x 8", 64 pages, 0-8845460-3-X. |
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Aimed at river runners who want to get the most hiking out of their river trip, these hikes
may take an hour or be from sunrise to sunset. Useful for planning your itinerary and for
stuffing in your fanny pack. Backpackers who can read backwards (from the canyon bottom
actually) will appreciate it too. Forget the next rapid, look up! The maps are improved and
the text updated. There are now eight pages of photographs in the middle.
Soft cover, 240 pages.
These sites also accepts credit card orders for Day Hikes 3rd Edition Amazon.com RiverMaps.net Five Quail Books Grand Canyon Association Mindbird Maps and Books |
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Do you want a Grand Canyon guidebook written by boaters for boaters?
Tom Martin, author of Day Hikes from the River, and Duwain Whitis, publisher of RiverMaps map books, have teamed up to write a new guidebook. This is the only guidebook to the Canyon with USGS topographic map backgrounds printed at their original scale, with additional details in an easy-to-read format. It is also the only guide with maps extending to South Cove in Lake Mead. Each map shows campsite locations, rapids, scout points, river miles and other points of interest. The accompanying text describes all campsites on the park inventory (and some extras), with campsite pull-in information, geological, botanical and historical points of interest. Maps are in color, text and photos are black and white. The guide is 8.5" x 14" spiral-bound to lay flat. The new mileage featured in this edition has been established by the Grand Canyon Research and Monitoring Center, using the most up-to-date measuring techniques. The new mileage deviates from the old by up to a mile in certain areas. The 108 pages are printed on tough waterproof and tear-resistant synthetic paper. 978-0-9776749-9-2. |
Check out the new NPS Orientation DVD all about how to put your Grand Canyon river trip together - they use this guide! Available from River Runners for Wilderness See Reviews & Awards |
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