Authors Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney are the perfect people to introduce you to the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, and this vividly illustrated work is a great first step.  You’ll see the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history, from the remnants of tropical seas to the modern Rockies.  With seventy of Ron Blakey’s paleogeographic maps and Wayne Ranney’s informed text, Ancient Landscapes will educate and delight.