My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose

by John Nichols

Overview

In My Heart Belongs to Nature, Nichols records his forty-five-year connection to the Taos valley and its mountains, where he still lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826357717
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	03/15/2017
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 12.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

At the time of his death in 2023, John Nichols had published eleven works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. A resident of Taos since the 1960s, his recent works include The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! A Novel; On Top of Spoon Mountain; and My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose (all from UNM Press).

Editorial Reviews

New Mexico's favorite iconoclast turns pensive in this ode to his beloved Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Río Grande. . . . Nichols's lyrical introductory text hands off the book to his own photographs and brief descriptions that his fiction fans will devour with delight.
—New Mexico Magazine

This is the book all who love nature would write if only we were John Nichols and had his photographic eye. It's a photographic scrapbook from a lifetime of observing, experiencing, and loving nature, in all its forms, alone or with children and beloved friends.—Robert Julyan, author of Hiking to History: A Guide to Off-Road New Mexico Historic Sites

This is the book all who love nature would write if only we were John Nichols and had his photographic eye. It's a photographic scrapbook from a lifetime of observing, experiencing, and loving nature, in all its forms, alone or with children and beloved friends.—Robert Julyan, author of Hiking to History: A Guide to Off-Road New Mexico Historic Sites

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