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The white heart of Mojave : an adventure with the outdoors of the desert / Edna Brush Perkins ; edited by Peter Wild.

Title: The white heart of Mojave : an adventure with the outdoors of the desert / Edna Brush Perkins ; edited by Peter Wild.
Author: Perkins, Edna Brush.
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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Wild, Peter, 1940-

Description

288 p. : ill., 1 map; 19 cm.

Summary

"An ardent early suffragette, Edna Brush Perkins set out in 1920 with her friend, Charlotte Hannahs Jordan, to journey into the Mojave, both women seeking to escape civilization and their struggle to secure voting rights for women. The Mojave at that time was considered to be a desolate, inaccessible region - part of the fading American frontier. Originally published in 1922, The White Heart of Mojave is Perkins's account of this journey." "Perkins's evocative writing describes the landscape and the people she encounters. As editor Peter Wild writes, this is ultimately the story of two wealthy women who enter Death Valley "as a sort of middle-aged lark" and "emerge from the trip profoundly changed.""--Jacket.

Series Statement

American land classics

Uniform Title

American land classics.

Subject

Note

Originally published: New York : Boni and Liveright, 1922.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-288).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

0801865050 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00032715^

OCLC

43985308

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library