Dr. Andrew Guillford (Fellow 1991) continues to write and publish on the broader subject of his Foundation-funded research: the preservation of sites sacred to native people in the American southwest.
Dr. Guillford’s latest book, Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology won the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for nature/environment, as well as the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best Book on Arizona for sections on the Grand Canyon. Outdoors in the Southwest is also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.
One of Dr. Guillford’s goals: to have Southwest hikers better understand the traces of Native Americans, cowboys, sheepherders and so many others who left their messages and marks on the vast landscape, on trees, rocks as well as their dwellings. Those topics are covered specifically in the chapter “Looking for History.”
Learn more via the University of Oklahoma Press book release announcement.
PRAISE FOR DR. GUILLFORD’S NEW BOOK
“In Outdoors in the Southwest, Gulliford advocates an outdoor ethic based on curiosity cooperation, humility and ecological literacy in a book that is packed with thoughtful and entertaining essays from renowned writers . . . a necessary read for anyone who has ever spent time exploring the Colorado Plateau and its environs and will serve well as an intellectual guidebook for those curious about this country’s ever changing landscape.”
Utah Adventure Journal, Spring 2014
“Collectively, these essays work to reignite love for the nation’s wilds while also reminding readers of their awesome and terrible power. . . Sections focus on natural landscape features, including mountains, canyons and rivers, or upon aspects of human interaction with them—how to approach relics, how to engage the wilderness, how to thank nature for its gifts. Even in their most terrifying and ephemeral moments, the essays of Outdoors in the Southwest are infused with a sense that the wilderness is both holy and elusive, worth pursuing even as it evades capture.”
Foreword Reviews, Traverse City, MI
“We don’t visit the natural world to be a part of it; we go with our kayaks, climbing gear, bicycles, skis, and snowboards to overcome it. The landscapes we pass through pursuing these sports become secondary to the actual pursuit. We’re there to conquer the natural world rather than embrace it. . . There’s a reason they call it the great outdoors. Gulliford understands that greatness.”
The Santa Fe New Mexican
“At once a great armchair book, it also serves as a very informative guidebook to the Southwest for the reader or the reader’s favorite outdoor advocate, volunteer and wanderer. . . .The work is uncompromised and offers an index, bibliography and endnotes, contributor bios, and useful illustrations. Equally satisfying as the best of the many articles inside of its covers (not a bad one in the bunch) is the underlying advocacy overall by Gulliford for an outdoor ethic based on ‘curiosity, cooperation, humility and ecological literacy.’ A staff pick!”
Wild-ol-o-gy, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
“Its focus on timely and difficult questions, as well as its mix of the scholarly and the personal, make it a valuable addition to an increasingly popular body of literature.”
Southwestern American Literature