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Discover Saskatchewan Scenic Secrets

Saskatchewan Scenic Secrets allows you to see Saskatchewan as you have never seen it before. With 145 stunning color photographs and informative commentary, award-winning writers and photographers Robin and Arlene Karpan take you on a visual journey through Saskatchewan, from the deep south to the far north, to where the beauty of nature takes centre stage.

Saskatchewan's special places are everywhere, from popular parks to little-known and little-visited gems that truly are "secrets". While some are hidden in remote wilderness, a surprising number are practically in our back yards, accessible to anyone with the motivation to venture off the beaten path.

Saskatchewan Scenic Secrets brings to life a landscape rife with superlatives – some of the largest tracts of uncultivated grasslands left on the Great Plains, the largest sand dunes in Canada, wetlands of international significance, northern lakelands that inspired the writings of Grey Owl, and wild pristine rivers where no signs of "civilization" intrude on a wilderness lost to most of the world. Saskatchewan is arid badlands where eroded buttes and stone-capped hoodoos stand guard over stark valleys of austere beauty, but it is also lush green valleys and secluded sanctuaries where moist carpets of ferns thrive under a forest canopy. No one landscape typifies Saskatchewan. Indeed, the Saskatchewan landscape is best defined by its incredible diversity.

Saskatchewan Scenic Secrets is a beautiful, hard cover coffee-table book that celebrates the beauty of nature, but it is also meant to raise awareness of Saskatchewan's special places and the need to conserve them.

Saskatchewan Scenic Secrets sells for $34.95. Available from fine bookstores and gift shops, or from Parkland Publishing, 501 Mount Allison Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7H 4A9. Phone (306) 242-7731.

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Saskatchewan Scenic Secrets
by Robin and Arlene Karpan
$34.95 hard cover
11 x 8 1/2
128 pages
145 color photos
ISBN 0-9683579-3-8

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