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Williams speaks out on the beauty of the desert and on what threatens it. With grace, humor, and the subtleties of her perception, Williams reminds us of what we have forgotten in the chaos of our lives and what can be reclaimed in the stillness of the desert.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, mid-century pioneers such as David Lavender remembered “not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of tiny things which in their sum make up the elemental poetry of rock and ice and snow.” And as the nation exhausted its gold and silver veins, as law...
5) The mysterious lands: an award-winning naturalist explores the four great deserts of the Southwest
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
x, 388 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines four great desert regions in the American West--the Chihuahuan, the Sonoran, the Mojave, and Nevada's Great Basin.
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