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ON THE SIDELINES

Keeping Track of a World in Flux

Essays, inventions, and an extended journal of the months leading up to the 2020 American election, the most momentous electoral contest of our times—so far.

Learn more on our Non-Fiction page.

EL SUR / THE SOUTH

A visual journey, north to south, through Chilean Patagonia, from Puerto Montt, where the Pnn-American highway essentially ends, all the way to Tierra del Fuego, at the very 'bottom' of South America.

Learn more on our FolioBooks page.

New FolioBooks

Sangre de Cristo

sand dunes to summits

Valpo

street art of Valparaiso

Two more additions to our series of beautifully printed but relatively  inexpensive softbound books of Linde Waidhofer's photography.

—The first is a portrait of the strange scenery of Colorado's high and dry San Luis Valley below the 14,000-foot Sangre de Cristo mountains.

—The second takes us on a walking tour though the dazzling street art in the barrios or neighborhoods suspended on the hills above the port of Valparaiso, Chile.

Learn more on our FolioBooks page.

Tracks in the Snow

We could brag  about Peter Shelton's honors and awards as a ski writer—four-times named Ski Writer of the Year. But we'd rather talk about Peter's subtle, intense and intensely personal portrayal of life on skis—the passions and perils of his lifelong addiction to sliding down snow-covered mountains. A collection of moments from the richest skier's life imaginable, shared in the richest, most imaginative prose to ever grace the pages of America's leading ski magazines,

Learn more on our Ski Writing page.

For No Good Reason

In this book Lito tries to answer the basically unanswerable question: Why climb? in a series of essays, impressionistic accounts of the author's most memorable ascents, and even a couple of short stories—rare examples of climbing fiction. Lito  started climbing at the age of 13, grew up on ths sunny granite cliffs of Yosemite Valley, and followed his climber's passion to Alaska, the Alps, and the Andes of Patagonia, always looking for new words to describe the  almost undescribable drama of the vertical world.

Learn more on our Non-Fiction page.

I Meant to Tell You

For the first time, Noona O'Riley, a much loved poet from southern Colorado, has set down on paper the poems she has composed and shared for many years in the bardic tradition of simply speaking them into being, and keeping them alive through repetition and performance. A feast of sounds and sentiment, poems to read out loud, and re-read often.

Learn more on our Poetry page.

Trees of the South is the latest addition to our series of handsome and remarkably affordable  8X8 inch FolioBooks, paperback folios of exquisitely printed photographs, both collectible and accessible. This folio takes the viewer on a strange and colorful journey through the mysterious forests at the very southern end of South America.

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Maybe a Sonnet,

the world condensed into fourteen lines.

Lito's sonnets are often poems of place, from the Rocky Mountains to the Andes of Patagonia, but they are also full of questions, provocative footnotes on our times.

Learn more on our Poetry page.

A Cat Named Clyde tells the story of what happens to a cat named Clyde after he dies. Like all creatures, Clyde is transformed and reintegrated into the natural world of growing things, plants, water, and weather. In poetic and vivid language and warm and colorful illustrations, this story seeks to put the death of a pet into its widest, most universal, and in a sense most benign context.

An eye-opener for kids and a beautiful sympathetic meditation for adults.

For details, please visit our Children's Books page.

Climbing to Freedom, the collected climbing writing of popular mountain scribe, Dick Dorworth.

Intensely lived and vividly told adventures on crags, walls and high peaks around the world. Plus fiction, essays, and profiles that paint a rich picture of the mountaineering and climbing life. A must for any mountaineering bookshelf.

Learn more on our Non-Fiction page.

Check out our new series of  small  and inexpensive photo books that we are calling FolioBooks, 8 X 8 inch paperback folios of exquisitely printed photographs, collectible and accessible. The first FolioBook in this series is El Norte, a visit to Chile's intensely dramatic Atacama Desert.

Learn more on our FolioBooks page.