This beautifully reproduced, affordable paperback collects Ansel Adams' finest images of the place closest to his heart:Yosemite National Park. It presents the essence of Adams' long association with Yosemite memorable photographs of glacial lakes and craggy peaks, cascading waterfalls and granite monoliths, lone trees and sylvan streams. Here are photographs such as Moon and Half Dome, Clearing Winter Storm, and El Capitanthat have become veritable icons of the American wilderness. Selections from Adams' writings about the park and its environment, and an introductory essay by Michael L. Fischer (president of the Yosemite Restoration Trust) that reveals the prescience of Adams' views on park management issues, enhance this in-depth photographic portrait of Yosemite National Park by America's foremost landscape photographer.