Navajoland

by LeRoy DeJolie

- One of Arizona Highways' Special Scenic Collection books, Navajoland is an excellent souvenir book for Arizonans and out-of-state travelers enamored with Native American culture and the landscape of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932082425
• ISBN13: 9781932082425
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Arizona Highways Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 13.2"

Customer Reviews

Guide tour by a Dine

It is a photo book taken with a view camera by a Native son who knows the culture tradition, homeland, flora and fauna. His picture is worth more than a thousand words, especially in spiritual enjoyment. The special four holy mountains landscape of Navajo Land is unique, sacred and historical. The Monument Valley and Spider Rock were impressive as seen many times in on -site movie shooting such as Mackenna’s Gold. Navajo is a proud tribe with rich culture and LeRoy did a fine job in sharing in text and photos. It is an interesting book to read and remind of the place and people if reader has visited before. It may motivate to make a tour trip for the real experience.

Native American

This was one of the most beautiful & interesting books I've ever read. The pictures are breathtaking. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves history.

Magnificent!

The pictures will take your breath away. Absolutely magnificent. The photographer has managed to capture the beauty and sacredness of his land. What a gift!

Very nice book, well worth owning, wish it shipped faster & was HBK

I saw this book mentioned on NBC Nightly News and decided to get a copy as a gift for my brother, just about all I can find to complain about is the long shipping time and the fact that it only comes as a paperback, not hardback. Both in Mr. Hillerman's forward and in the photographer's own text you get some Navajo history and philosophy about how/why things happened and their beliefs. Apparently the ancestral Navajos considered four mountains to be the boundaries of their territory, much of that land is still inside present day reservation borders. The book is divided into four sections, by mountain and north,south,east and west. Each section of the land is represented by some very nice photography, some of it similar to what you might have seen before but more often unfamiliar scenery. It's well worth owning.

I knew there was magic and this book proves it....

What beautiful pictures ...waves of emotions rippled thru my soul as I turned these timeless pages. Truly a gift to those fortunate enough to find this book in their hands. The history was as incredible as the Sunrise of course!