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Burntwater
- Title
- Burntwater / Scott Thybony.
- Author
- Thybony, Scott.
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F788.5 .T49 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 117 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- In Navajo country, where the land is thick with legends and forgotten histories, a writer sets out to find a place that no longer exists except on a few old maps: Burntwater. The story opens when two friends get stuck in a remote pocket of the desert as a winter storm moves in. They are taking a wandering route across the Four Corners region, curving through Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona on a long arc into the mythic heart of the country.
- As they travel, the author calls up past experiences in this land where the past flows seamlessly into the present. He remembers a medicine man whose chanting could start the cold engine of a Volkswagen. He describes an act of sabotage against an oil company by two Vietnam vets armed with deer rifles. He recalls how a winter of herding sheep for a Navajo family and a search for a Hopi known as the Sun Chief led him further into a human landscape as strange and compelling as the terrain.
- Reaching the Shrine of the Stone Lions, the writer recounts a near-fatal descent into the Grand Canyon, where he finds a way to reconnect with the beauty of life. There his journey ends with an emotional punch that goes straight to the mind and the heart.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Deeper in -- Mad Kelly -- Sun chief -- The singer -- Redwall -- No man -- Blind trail -- Roadman -- Encircled mountain -- Brothers of light -- Stone lions -- Under the Rim -- Returning.
- ISBN
- 0816514569 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0816514801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96045807
- OCLC
- 35694535
- ocm35694535
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries