{"product_id":"silence-so-deep-it-rings-laura-mcphee-9780691281131","title":"Silence So Deep It Rings: A Desert Chronicle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerfully evocative photographic chronicle of the high desert of the American West\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell--stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological. In \u003ci\u003eSilence So Deep It Rings\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned landscape photographer Laura McPhee challenges the tradition of nineteenth-century survey photography, capturing the sheer beauty and depth of the West while conveying what has since occurred on the surface of the land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing a large-format Deardorff camera, McPhee explores how people live in a fragile ecosystem within a changing climate, recording the many transformations occurring across both human and geological time. She looks at evidence of Indigenous peoples, at byproducts of settlers' empire building and resource extraction--at a marred environment, perceiving time itself, from the generational embrace of family to the enormity of billions of years. McPhee documents her own existence in rural Idaho, registering the disturbing fact that our politics, practices, and collective complacency have taken us to the edge of what is ecologically sustainable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith perspectives on the American West by John McPhee, who documented his exploration of the region decades earlier, and an in-depth interview with Laura and her father by Ian Frazier, \u003ci\u003eSilence So Deep It Rings\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound and moving reflection on the ways human endeavor intersects with the miracle of the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura McPhee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691281130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691281131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Laura McPhee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460281118975,"sku":"9780691281131","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31e58bca-6301-44d6-9e95-299d70b9476f.jpg?v=1777413723","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/silence-so-deep-it-rings-laura-mcphee-9780691281131","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}