pWinter/Spring 2007 [2:1]

World War II had a profound effect on the people of the Colorado Plateau. Read about Acoma hero Sam Antonio; golden boys from the Arizona Strip who never returned; POWs on the plateau; and the impacts of war on parks and monuments.

Summer/Fall 2007 [2:2]

Water is the lifeblood of the American West and sculptor of the land. Native Americans call the rain; Craig Childs searches for water in the desert; wildlife depends upon it; and we all need to learn how to cope with changing climate.

Summer/Fall 2009 [4:2]

The Colorado Plateau provides a feast for the senses, but the range of human perception is limited. What are we missing because it is too large or too small, rare or too common, moving too fast or too slow, or hidden underground or under water?

Winter/Spring 2010 [5:2]

Did you know that the National Park Service is one of the world’s largest museum systems, preserving not only places of grandeur and national significance, but also millions of natural, historic, and prehistoric objects? Peek inside the archives.

Winter/Spring 2011 [6:1]

There is a clear adaptive advantage to environments that offer places of security and clear unimpeded views of the terrain – which allow one to see without being seen – tempered by a mysterious invitation to explore.

Summer/Fall 2011 [6:2]

The Colorado Plateau is a landscape of music… a haunting flute, a pioneer fiddle, the call of the Canyon Wren… the silence of winter.

Winter/Spring 2012 [7:1]

Sometimes the smallest detail can connect you directly with the past. It might be a long strand of black hair exposed by blowing softly on the dust of an ancestral Puebloan ruin or it might be a single turquoise bead on a red ant hill.

Winter/Spring 2013 [8:1]

Just as each person creates a personal history that is partly true and partly mythic, weaving fact and fictionwhat happened, what sort of happened, and what never happened so do a nations films… especially in the films of the Southwest.

Summer/Fall 2013 [8:2]

Dating back to the 1870s when Thomas Moran joined John Wesley Powell at the Grand Canyon, art has been a key inspiration to those who visit the Colorado Plateau.

Summer/Fall 2014 [9:2]

The Colorado Plateau is a unique landscape thrusted up in the middle of the American West. And with that uniqueness comes am endless list of marvels and mysteries to be explored.

Winter/Spring 2015 [10:1]

The Colorado Plateau is rich in food history. From Hopi dry farming to Navajo piñon nuts to the orchards at Capitol Reef, food is as important as the landscape in the unique place.

In Flying Home, The Colorado Plateau from Above and Below, Craig Childs is your guide as he and his pilot friend Neal Schwieterman hop from one mesa-top landing strip to another in a 1946 Cessna.

Between hawk’s-eye panoramas and on-the-ground adventures, you’ll fly directly into the heart of the Colorado Plateau in a uniquely memorable way.

Publication date: January 2018. 160 pages, 140 illustrations.

Softbound with front and back flaps. $24.95. Published by PPCA, Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons Association.

The Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons Association, nonprofit publisher of Flying Home and previously of Sojourns, chose to mark the end of that journal’s decade-long adventure with a special double issue. Happily, the involvement of Childs and imagery from some of the country’s most talented photographers allowed that farewell issue to evolve into this book now available.