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explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest
By Wild, Peter
"The opal desert" was published by University of Texas Press in 1999 - Austin, it has 219 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The opal desert” Metadata:
- Title: The opal desert
- Author: Wild, Peter
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 219
- Publisher: University of Texas Press
- Publish Date: 1999
- Publish Location: Austin
“The opal desert” Subjects and Themes:
- 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
- Places: New Southwest
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 219 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL530076M - OL2346858W
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 99006113
- ISBN-10: 0292791283 - 0292791291
- All ISBNs: 0292791283 - 0292791291
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"The opal desert" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Acknowledgments
- 2- Introduction
- 3- Cabeza de Vaca: flaming entrails, burning trees
- 4- William L. Manly: the classic account of deserta horribilis
- 5- J. Ross Browne & Samuel W. Cozzens: happy travelers through lost lands
- 6- Charles F. Lummis: the showman with the shining right hand
- 7- Mary Austin: beauty, madness, death, and God
- 8- John C. Van Dyke & the desert aestheticians
- 9- William T. Hornaday: the happy travelers, part 2
- 10- John Wesley Powell & William E. Smythe: God smiles on the irrigationists
- 11- J. Smeaton Chase: our Araby
- 12- Joseph Wood Krutch: the pronuba moth and the modern dilemma
- 13- Edward Abbey: Ned Ludd arrives on the desert
- 14- Ann Zwinger & Charles Bowden: pondering these things in her heart; Tacitus flips out
- 15- Peter Reyner Banham: wheeled voyeur from overseas
- 16- Epilogue
- 17- Notes
- 18- Bibliography
- 19- Index.
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