Playa works
Subtitle: the myth of the empty
By: William L. Fox.
Series: Environmental arts and humanities series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Fox, William L., 1949- -- Travel -- Southwest, New; Playas -- Southwest, New; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Southwest, New; Landscape -- Southwest, New -- Psychological aspects; Natural history -- Southwest, New; Southwest, New -- Description and travel; Nevada -- Description and travel; Southwest, New -- History, Local; Southwest, New -- In art
Description: "Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin.

Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220).
"Winner of the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award for 2002"--T.p. verso.