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Cleare, John. Distant Mountains: Encounters with the World's Greatest Mountains. Discovery, 1998. Photographs and essays on world-famous mountain peaks.

Cooper, Adrian. Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Meanings. Rudolf Steiner Press, 1998. Description of spiritual associations with mountains and journeys to these mountains.

Lamb, Simon. Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes. In describing his research on the Andes Mountains, the author provides a good account of what geologists do.

Lamm, Richard D., and Eric Wunrow. Mountains of Colorado. Graphic Arts Center, 1999. Colorado's former governor celebrates the mountains of his state, with photographs by Wunrow.

Macdougall, J. D. A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire and Ice. Wiley, 1996, 1998. For the lay reader, a succinct account of our Earth's development.

Salkeld, Audrey, ed. World Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers. Bulfinch, 1998. Prominent mountaineers describe their most revered peaks and ranges.

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Evans, Howard Ensign. The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820. Oxford University Press, 1997. The expedition's natural observations and discoveries.

Harmon, Carole, ed. Heart of the Rockies. Altitude, 1984. Photographs of the Rocky Mountains.

McPhee, John A. Rising from the Plains. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. A personal and geologic history of the Rockies.

Smith, Duane A. Rocky Mountain West: Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, 1859-1915. University of New Mexico Press, 1992. General history of Rocky Mountain settlers.

Trenton, Patricia, and Peter H. Hassrick. The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century. University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. Landscapes of the Rocky Mountains.

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