Earth and Sky: Photographs and Stories from Montana and Alberta

By Stephen Legault

Two hundred photographs and a series of essays explore the foothills shared by Alberta and Montana as a distinctive cross-border landscape.

Earth and Sky turns attention to the country many travellers pass through on their way to Banff, Kananaskis, Waterton and Glacier national parks. The foothills are treated as a destination in their own right, shaped by grasslands, mountains, communities and a long history shared across the Canada-US border.

The book combines black-and-white and colour photography with short narrative essays on natural history, geology, culture and local communities. First-person writing gives the collection a strong sense of attachment to place, while the transboundary perspective emphasizes connections between Alberta and Montana that political borders do not erase.

Development pressures and social challenges are considered alongside the region's beauty and history. The result is both a photographic portrait and a regional study, suited to readers interested in landscape photography, western history, natural history and the foothills linking Canada and the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771601590
• ISBN13: 9781771601597
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.4" x 8.7"