Opal Desert

Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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 RelaciÓn 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 Abbey, Ann Zwinger, and Charles Bowden. He links all the writers as explorers of one kind or another, searching for tangible or intangible treasures, some finding and some losing their dreams in the opal desert.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:231
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292791299

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Mer om författaren

One of the foremost poets of the American West, Peter Wild has published over sixty volumes of history, literature, and poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize nominee Cochise. He is Professor of English at the University of Arizona.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Cabeza de Vaca: Flaming Entrails, Burning Trees2. William L. Manly: The Classic Account of Deserta Horribilis3. J. Ross Browne and Samuel W. Cozzens: Happy Travelers through Lost Lands4. Charles F. Lummis: The Showman with the Shining Right Hand5. Mary Austin: Beauty, Madness, Death, and God6. John C. Van Dyke and the Desert Aestheticians7. William T. Hornaday: The Happy Travelers--Part 28. John Wesley Powell and William E. Smythe: God Smiles on the Irrigationists9. J. Smeaton Chase: Our Araby10. Joseph Wood Krutch: The Pronuba Moth and the Modern Dilemma11. Edward Abbey: Ned Ludd Arrives on the Desert12. Ann Zwinger and Charles Bowden: Pondering These Things in Her Heart; Tacitus Flips Out13. Peter Reyner Banham: Wheeled Voyeur from OverseasEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex