Opal Desert Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest

Name: Opal Desert Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest
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ISBN: 9780292791299

ISBN-10: 0292791291

ISBN-13: 9780292791299

Edition: 1999

Authors: Peter Wild

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The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual storytelling of filmmakers. In this spirited, personal, beautifully written book, Peter Wild explores the lives and works of sixteen writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opal desert.Wild begins with Cabeza de Vaca, whose Relacin of his desert wanderings sent treasure-hungry Spaniards searching for cities of gold. He goes on to discuss the works of both widely read and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, including such luminaries as Mary Austin, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 231
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990

Peter Wild writes for many publications, including the Guardian and the Independent, and is the author or editor of numerous books. He lives in Stockport, UK.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Cabeza De Vaca: Flaming Entrails, Burning Trees



William L. Manly: The Classic Account of Deserta Horribilis



J. Ross Browne and 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 and the Desert Aestheticians



William T. Hornaday: The Happy Travelers - Part 2



John Wesley Powell and 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 and 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