The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions - Softcover

 
9780874808711: The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0874808715 ISBN 13: 9780874808711
Verlag: University of Utah Press,U.S., 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Wild is professor of English at the University of Arizona and author of numerous books on the Southwest including  The Grumbling Gods: A Palm Springs Reader.

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Verlag
University of Utah Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0874808715
ISBN 13 
9780874808711
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
324
Herausgeber
Wild Peter
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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