Matthias Breiter

I picked up this slim volume in a gift shop in Denali National Park when I was there a couple of months ago. It features beautiful photographs of the park's landscape and its plants and animals, and, of course, of the mountain itself (which was particularly nice, since I never caught more than a partial glimpse of it through the clouds when I was there, an experience I'm told is pretty common). The accompanying text occasionally has a bit of that over-familiar quality of nature writing that's trying to be a bit too poetic, but in general it's good, and it offers up some interesting information about the park, its wildlife, and its history to accompany the pictures.

It was very pleasant to spend an hour or so slowly perusing it, revisiting some of the things I'd seen and vicariously experiencing some of the ones I missed. So it was a very nice souvenir to bring home from the trip.… (meer)