Treasured Lands
A Photographic Odyssey Through America's National Parks, Second Expanded Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 1. August 2019
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-1-7335760-0-0 (ISBN)
Description
New in the second edition, second printing
- New national park added (White Sands National Park), 6 new pages
- New back cover image of White Sands on the evening it became a national park
- At time of publication, only book to include all 62 national parks
Features
- Collection of photographs documents the diversity of the national parks in a more comprehensive way (484 pages, 600+ photos) than any single volume before.
- Author made more than 300 park visits during a more than a quarter century (May 1993 to Dec 2020) and traveled deep in the wilderness.
- Photographs, made with both large-format film and digital equipment span all seasons, times of the day and night.
- Equal treatment is given to well-known and lesser-known national parks.
- Within each park, locations (450 total) are chosen to be representative, cover each of its corners, mix icons with out-of-the-way places.
- A photographer's guide shares how readers can visit locations. The information is guidebook-grade with 63 maps and 140,000+ words, equivalent to a 400-page paperback. For portability and legibility, an electronic version is accessible to book owners for a nominal charge.
- High production values includes high quality photography reproduction, heavy weight art paper (book weights 8.2 lbs), gloss varnish, French fold jacket.
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Due to its impressive size, the book is an excellent value despite its price
($65):
Number of pages per dollar compared to other photo books:- The National Parks: An American Legacy: 240p/$50 = 4.8
- The National Parks of the United States: A Photographic Journey: 168p/$40 = 4.2
- Treasured Lands: 480p/$65 = 7.4
Benefits
- Discover the diversity of the national parks.
- Visualize what each park has to offer.
- Learn what makes each park unique.
- Plan to visit the locations pictured.
- Find out how the photographs were made.
Sales History
- Sold out four printings (20,000 copies) in 3.5 years (from October 2016 to April 2020).
- Return rate 17%.
- Attained at some point the following best
sales rank out of 8,000,000 (#1 is best selling English-language
book):
Amazon.com #287
Amazon Germany #247
Amazon Canada #339
Amazon France #118
- During the period from February to June 2017, when discounts were comparable, Amazon sales were comparable to "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns (based on the popular PBS series) and to "The National Parks: An Illustrated History" published by National Geographic.
- 225 Amazon customer reviews, 4.9 out of 5 stars, 96%
5-star reviews. For comparison (as of Aug 2020):
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea: 214 reviews, 82% 5-star
- The National Parks: An Illustrated History: 88 reviews, 87% 5-star
- The National Parks: An American Legacy: 53 reviews, 71% 5-star
- The National Parks of the United States: A Photographic Journey: 33 reviews, 88% 5-star
More details
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
63 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 322 mm
Width: 257 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
3529 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7335760-0-0 (9781733576000)
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Persons
QT Luong is an award-winning photographer, author, and
environmentalist known for being the first to photograph all
62 U.S. National Parks-in large format. He has been the
subject of many magazine and newspaper articles, and was
featured in the PBS series "The National Parks: America's Best
Idea". Luong's photographs have appeared in hundreds of
publications around the world, as well as solo gallery and
museum exhibits across America and abroad. QT lives in San Jose, CA with
his wife and two children.
Dayton Duncan, author and documentary filmmaker, wrote and co-produced, with Ken Burns, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, for which he won two Emmy Awards and was named honorary park ranger by the director of the National Park Service. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, American Heritage magazine, the Old Farmer's Almanac, and many other publications. He is the author of twelve books and has collaborated on Ken Burns's films for twenty years as a writer, producer, and consultant. Dayton lives in Walpole, NH with his family.