Heart of the Desert Wild combines naturalist writer Greer K. Chesher"s thought provoking prose with photographer Liz Hymans" spectacular panoramic images to evoke the wonder of Grand Staircase-Escalante. Beginning with the land"s rocky past and combing through the woven layers of place - native grasses and bighorn sheep, the sound of moving waters and the people drawn to them, strange soils and rare plants - the book provides an intergrated geography of what anthropollogist Clyde Kluckhohn once called the "last Holy Place."