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Show Two Great New Anthologies _ of Environmental & Travel Essays | (include Moab writers) Wild Earth: Wild Ideas fora World — Out of A Woman Alone: Travel Tales — — From Around ' Balance - $18.95 the Globe $15.95 In the middle of the day we arrived at Wadi Sabra, the connecting valley and popular trade route between Petra and Jerusalem. In the distance I could see the white shrine of the Prophet Aaron perched on top of Jabal Harun, the highest summit in Petra at 4,430 feet. Aaron, brother of Moses, is believed to be buried up there, having died while Moses led the Israelites to the plains of Moab. To this date, the shrine is visited by Muslim, Christian and Jewish pilgrims. Bernice Notenboom “Color Locale, Bedouin style A Woman Alone One picture will capture a minor fraction of an immense, yet intimate, moment of magical Canyonlands sunrise, a meager instant of the shifting tide at the warm end of the spectrum across a thousand canyons, cliffs, spires, buttes, and indescribable sculpted forms. But captured it will be. One picture...and I could babble a million words in feeble approximation. In an hour, full daylight will again cast normality across Canyonlands. The odd mist will burn off. Hard white light will fill the deep shadows. A miraculous dawn will become a savored memory. But Todd’s camera, barring any major lapses of technology and technique, will have trapped a sacred moment like a rabbit in a snare. And its reproductions will be as permanent as a taxidermied jackalope. Jose’ Knighton "Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire Wild Earth |