Christmas in America: A Photographic Celebration of the Holiday Season

A New Edition of Peter Guttman’s Dazzling Photographic Treasury of Holiday Lights and Celebrations

Nothing reminds us of the good things in life--family, friendship, food, and good cheer--more than Christmas. With stunning images and illuminating text, award-winning photographer Peter Guttman offers a dazzling overview of the wintry landscapes, traditions, ceremonies, spectacles, and pastimes of the holiday season throughout the United States. Delve into the landscapes and streetscapes of Christmas in America and you can almost smell the frosted scent of snow-covered pines, of chestnuts roasting, and of family meals being shared.

In the East, we find the spirit of the season in a cozy Vermont country inn, or an ＂army of elves＂ in a Philadelphia parade, or the sweeping grace of the sugar plum fairies in the Nutcracker Suite. In the heartland, we dogsled through a crystal wilderness in Minnesota and discover blazing bonfires in Louisiana. The snowy cliffs of the Grand Canyon, steam trains weaving high amongst the Rockies, the textured pueblos of New Mexico, the almost heavenly night sky of Utah’s Monument Valley, and the indescribable glazed beauty of Yosemite reflect the West. Like the holiday season itself, Christmas in America is a treasure.

Peter Guttman is a photographer, writer, author, app creator, fine artist, television personality, lecturer, and adventurer who has traveled on assignment through all seven continents covering more than 240 countries. His eight hardcover books include Children Around the World, By the Sea, and Extreme Adventure. Guttman received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Storytelling, has three times won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award, and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Travel Writers Society and a George Eastman Power of the Image Award, while being cited as one of ＂twenty of the world’s most influential photographers.＂ He lives in New York City.