How do you like a desert? The book with photographs by Eliot Porter and text by Joseph Wood Krutch swipes a shallow perception and assumption about the desert. The book takes the readers to surprising discovery that there is not everything so rude and hopeless in the arid lands. It teaches not to look at landscape but to see and understand it. The Geography of Hope is in the title of the book and it brings the Hope of seeing the desert through the liberated thinking mind. By my opinion, if one is able to change negative attitudes toward desert, he is able to change his life to the best. Therefore, this book is one of the most valuable items in the Arizona prison library collection. ( )

Eliot Porter's photographs, with excerpts from Krutch's many books, offering perhaps the best anthology of Krutch's pantheistic religious views on the meaning of man and nature. ( )