Red Passion and Patience in the Desert

Name: Red Passion and Patience in the Desert
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ISBN: 9780375725180

ISBN-10: 0375725180

ISBN-13: 9780375725180

Edition: 2002

Authors: Terry Tempest Williams

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The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams writes lyrically about the desert’s power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise–an animal that can “teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience” as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.97" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

She is the award-winning author of Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, Refuge & most recently Red - A Desert Reader. She lives in Castle Valley, Utah.



Home Work


Coyote's Canyon


Red


Desert Quartet


Wild Mercy


Appendices


America's Redrock Wilderness Act


Map of America's Redrock Wilderness


America's Redrock Wilderness: The Citizens' Proposal


Supporting Organizations


Acknowledgments