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Introduction by BRIAN FAGAN
"We look at this Earth, this ancient America through muddied eyes smarting with industrial pollution," writes anthropologist Brian Fagan in introducing David Muench's astounding visual interpretation of what the continent was like before the arrival of the white man - "where animals, humans, and Earth herself lived in comparative harmony for more than twelve thousand years."
Guided by the themes of ancient light, earth, rock, water, trees, ruins, and growth, Muench's colorful, mystical, and sometimes surreal images portray the ancient soul of nature as it is found throughout America: a sunburst hitting the clouds above a desert ruin, a steaming volcanic crater surrounded with snow, moonlight reflected in icy blue northern waters, a mountain range struck by vibrant lightning bolts. This is the pre-Columbian world recovered in David's work, in ANCIENT AMERICA.
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