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The opal desert : explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest
- Title
- The opal desert : explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest / Peter Wild.
- Author
- Wild, Peter, 1940-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- 219 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-[211]) and index.
- 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: the mountain, a beetle, and the thief in the night -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-14125
- ISBN
- 0292791283 (alk. paper)
- 0292791291 (pbk. : paper)
- LCCN
- 99006113
- OCLC
- 40762502
- Author
- Wild, Peter, 1940-
- Title
- The opal desert : explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest / Peter Wild.
- Imprint
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-[211]) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-14125