MOON HANDBOOKS FOUR CORNERS
INCLUDING NAVAJO AND HOPI COUNTRY, MOAB,
AND LAKE POWELL

Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with
• Can’t-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations,
• Suggestions on how to plan a trip that’s perfect for you, including:
       The Best of the Four Corners
       National Parks and Scenery Tour
       Outdoors and Backcountry Tour
       History and Archaeology Tour
       Native Cultures Tour
• 21 detailed and easy-to-use maps
• The firsthand experience and unique perspective of author Julian Smith

"I sure wish this book had been around back in 1950 when I was a newcomer to God's Country. Now I can say I wouldn't go without my copy."
— Award-winning author Tony Hillerman

Moon Handbooks Four Corners
2nd Edition
Julian Smith
ISBN 1-56691-778-6
$16.95
Purchase here through Amazon.com or visit Indiebound.org to find your local independent bookseller.

Julian Smith has been writing since he learned to read, and traveling since the first family trip to Cape Cod as a toddler. A pre-college summer in Brazil sparked a love affair with (and in) Latin America, fueled by a stint studying the cloud forests of Costa Rica. Days after wrangling a degree in biology from the University of Virginia, he found himself hopelessly entangled in a self-publishing venture that resulted nine months later in the one-pound, eight-ounce On Your Own in El Salvador, the first in-depth guide to the country.
   He has contributed to the Smithsonian, Outside, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Traveler, New Mexico Magazine, Road Trip USA, Online Travel Planning for Dummies, and other publications. His first edition of Moon Four Corners won the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Gold Award for best guidebook in 2004. He also managed to earn a master's degree in Wildlife Ecology along the way, studying grizzly bear tourism on the coast of British Colombia.
 As far as normal jobs go, Julian has done pretty well. He's launced and edited an international peer-reviewed scientific journal, guided tourists through the Central American rainforest, and tried (in vain) to protect the vegetable garden of one of the richest men in the world from marauding rodents. Along the way he’s found himself freezing atop Kilimanjaro, meditating in a Japanese Zen temple, and fleeing from Ugandan pygmies, through absolutely no fault of his own.
   After moving to Albuquerque in 1996, Julian fell under the spell of the Southwest as only a Volvo-driving Yankee can. He's been exploring the region ever since, doing everything from working as a Canyonlands National Park ranger to paddling a dinky raft across the Colorado River just above class IV rapids. He currently lives in Santa Fe, NM and gets up to the Four Corners at every opportunity.
   For more travel writing and photography, stop by his website, www.juliansmith.com.

Other travel guides authored by Julian Smith:
Moon Handbooks Chesapeake Bay
Moon Handbooks Ecuador
Moon Handbooks Virginia