An edition of The opal desert
(1999)
The opal desert
explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest
1st ed.
by Wild, Peter
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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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0292791283 9780292791282
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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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