HIGH AND WILD : A MOUNTAINEER'S WORLD (SIGNED)

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Very Good. Folio, 12.25 in. x 9.25 in., pp. 159. Inscribed and signed by the author on page 1. Blue cloth boards with silver mountain to front and silver title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Sunning to board edges. Light vertical creases to front free endpaper and page 1/2. Light edgewear to dustjacket with one inch closed tear on rear panel of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. "Galen Rowell (1940-2002), an outstanding landscape photographer, practiced what he termed ''participatory photography,'' seeking to infuse the pictures he took with his own feelings about the scene before him rather than settling for the role of observer with a camera. What drew him to photography, he said, was not a desire to see the world through a camera but an intense devotion to the wilderness, which also lead him to become an avid mountaineer.

"Mr. Rowell made skillful use of natural light to create scenes of striking beauty, often shot through with a deep sense of loneliness. ''Still photographs,'' he once wrote, ''especially those originally matched to a strong vision, are virtually unforgettable.'' Over the last 20 years Mr. Rowell made more than 30 photographic journeys through the mountains of Nepal, India, Tibet, China, Africa, Alaska, Siberia, New Zealand and Patagonia, as well as climbing in the High Sierras of the Western United States. He published 16 books of photographs.
(from New York Times Obituaries 8/14/2002).