The enchanted wilderness: A red rock odyssey

By Ward Jay Roylance

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915272296
• ISBN13: 9780915272297
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Four Corners West
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unique Love Story of Utah Wilderness

Ward Roylance began exploring the Southern Utah wilderness in the early 1940s. He remained enamored of it the rest of his life. This book, a bit idiosyncratic and biographical at times, is a log of his backcountry travels, a plea for wilderness preservation and, most importantly, an almost childlike description of the profound effect wilderness had on him and his wife. Numberous black and white photos. Ward's wife Gloria's poetry is quoted here and there in the book. To the Roylances the Utah Wilderness and Colorado Plateau were "ineffable." Their plain, but sincere, love of wilderness is evident throughout the book. Ward and Gloria's words touched me like only a few others --- Thoreau, Abbey, Emerson, Muir and Leopold. This is a very special book!