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The opal desert

explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest

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University of Texas Press
Language
English
Pages
219

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Subjects
Natural history, Desert ecology, Deserts, Description and travel, Southwest, new, description and travel, Natural history, united states, Travel, Naturgeschichte <Fach>, Südweststaaten, Naturgeschichte, Wüste, Reiseliteratur
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New Southwest

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The opal desert: explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest
1999, University of Texas Press
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cabeza de Vaca: flaming entrails, burning trees
William L. Manly: the classic account of deserta horribilis
J. Ross Browne & Samuel W. Cozzens: happy travelers through lost lands
Charles F. Lummis: the showman with the shining right hand
Mary Austin: beauty, madness, death, and God
John C. Van Dyke & the desert aestheticians
William T. Hornaday: the happy travelers, part 2
John Wesley Powell & William E. Smythe: God smiles on the irrigationists
J. Smeaton Chase: our Araby
Joseph Wood Krutch: the pronuba moth and the modern dilemma
Edward Abbey: Ned Ludd arrives on the desert
Ann Zwinger & Charles Bowden: pondering these things in her heart; Tacitus flips out
Peter Reyner Banham: wheeled voyeur from overseas
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-[211]) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
917.9
Library of Congress
F786 .W73 1999, F786.W73 1999

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219 p. ;
Number of pages
219

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Open Library
OL530076M
Internet Archive
opaldesertexplor0000wild
ISBN 10
0292791283, 0292791291
LCCN
99006113
Library Thing
7474591
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1198484
2525853

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