Mention Nevada, and most people think of one of three things: nuclear testing, the feverish glitter of Las Vegas, or a view of drab, endless valleys and barren mountains glimpsed from a car speeding toward California. Now Ann Ronald, a scholar of nature writing, and Stephen Trimble, a distinguished photographer of the landscapes and native peoples of the West, have combined forces to show us another Nevada. The Silver State they know is full of color and life, rich with history both natural and human, abundant with lessons for the earth-centered traveler eager for wisdom and rejuvenation. - ISLE Ann Ronald's essays combine beautiful prose with natural, historical, and anecdotal information. The essays compliment Stephen Trimble's rich color photographs that are a celebration of light, shadow, and detail. After studying this work, many readers will find themselves asking when they might next have an opportunity to visit Nevada. - Journal of the West Earthtones takes the reader from the lowest deserts to the highest mountains of this unusual state that has such an abundance of public lands for the nature lover. This is a wonderful book and one that should be on the shelf of every library, public or private, that aspires to be complete on the subject of the Great Basin and its environs. - The Bloomsbury Review Earthtones is a wonderful introduction to the mystical, vastly misunderstood, and hidden Silver State. - Small Press
