Legends Of The American Desert

Author : Alex Shoumatoff
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831817
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his brilliant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination. In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. And as he ventures across time and space, blending many genres--history, anthropology, natural science, to name only a few--he brings us a wealth of information on chile addiction, the diffusion of horses, the formation of the deserts and mountain ranges, the struggles of the Navajo to preserve their culture, and countless other aspects of this place we think we know. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert is a superbly rich epic of fact and reflection destined to take its place among such classics of regional portraiture as Ian Frazier's Great Plains. Alex Shoumatoff has created an exuberant celebration of a singularly American reality.

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : Schultheiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Desert written by Schultheiss and published by . This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terese Svoboda
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255209
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Desert written by Terese Svoboda and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from prehistoric times to the future, about land, our abuse of the land, and the impact on the people who come after

Author : Joel Oppenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Desert written by Joel Oppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great American Desert is a wild and witty chronicle of three Western outlaws - with Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Billy The Kid, and Doc Holliday as chorus - a tongue-in-cheek parody of the vast mythos of the Hollywood "Horse Opera "and all that lies behind it in history and fiction.

Author : Bruce Berger
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385413947
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telling Distance written by Bruce Berger and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 50 essays, winner of the 1990 Western States Book Award, tells of the people, mythsand legends of the American Southwest. An Edward Abbe y with the heart of a poet, Bruce Berger teaches armchair environmentalists and hard-core outdoorsmen alike to tread lightly in the wilderness, with new respect for the odd charm and immense fragility of the planet. Mr. Berger brings the desert to life. --TheNew York Times Book Review. Line drawings.

Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425364076
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Mythology of the Mountains and Deserts written by Hartley Burr Alexander and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Raymond John Pool
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of the Great American Desert written by Raymond John Pool and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Maria V. Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sixteen Years on the Great American Desert; Or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Frontier Life written by Annie Maria V. Green and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Eugene Hollon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Desert Then written by William Eugene Hollon and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: