ISBN: 9780874808711

The New Desert Reader brings together a historical cross section of writing about the American Southwest in selections that demonstrate how thinking about American deserts has changed fro… More...

The New Desert Reader brings together a historical cross section of writing about the American Southwest in selections that demonstrate how thinking about American deserts has changed from the earliest times to the present day. Beginning with the centuries-old legends of the Tohono O’Odham Indians, it moves through the foresighted observations of John Wesley Powell, one-armed explorer of the Grand Canyon; continues with the delicate appreciations of Mary Austin and Joseph Wood Krutch; includes examples of the keen activist writings of Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey; and finishes with such contemporary desert writers as Tony Hillerman and others. A slow change in outlook dominates the book, as attitudes shift from viewing the desert as a place to be despised or exploited to an appreciation of it as a special place, an arena of highly complex natural communities, and a wild refuge for the human body and soul. Comprehensive and brightly informative, The New Desert Reader will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history, literature, and beauty of North America’s treasured desert places. | The New Desert Reader by Peter Wild Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Essays & Collections P10106, Peter Wild<

ISBN: 9780874808711

Paperback, [PU: University of Utah Press,U.S.], Brings together a historical cross section of writing about the American Southwest in selections that demonstrate how thinking about Americ… More...

Paperback, [PU: University of Utah Press,U.S.], Brings together a historical cross section of writing about the American Southwest in selections that demonstrate how thinking about American deserts has changed from the earliest times to the present day., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

2006, ISBN: 9780874808711

Buch, Softcover, [PU: University of Utah Press,U.S.], University of Utah Press,U.S., 2006

2006, ISBN: 9780874808711

Softcover, Buch, [PU: University of Utah Press,U.S.]