Walking the Unknown River and Other Travels in Escalante Country, by Ann Weiler Walka. Soft cover, 103 pages.

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Ann’s essays and poems evoke the solitude, beauty and harshness of the remote country along the Escalante River in southern Utah.

What makes this book so special is that in just over 100 pages, using written accounts from contemporary as well as historical sources and a judicious blend of unforgettable poetry, the reader is introduced to this hidden speal heart of the Colorado Plateau. The prose and poetry is succinct, lyrical, original,and highly readable. About what you would expect from the likes of Katie Lee, Barry Lopez, Navajo Elers and Walka herself.

To walk this Unknown River Country is to visit a place that “…is traveled but not penetrated, studied but not deciphered, mapped but not squared.” It is to lament Glen Canyon “…and all things that can never be again.” It is to attempt to comprehend the wonder of Navajo Mountain and to consider Dance Hall Rock and the Mormons accomplishing the unthinkable and moving to the Bluff, UT., area through Hole-In-The-Rock to the Colorado River.

This is a very special book about a very special place that has buried itself inside the heart of a gifted writer. While there have been many attempts to describe this special place, and no doubt will be many more to come, this book will set the standard by which all others will be judged.