Red
Subtitle: passion and patience in the desert
By: Terry Tempest Williams.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Williams, Terry Tempest -- Philosophy.; Natural history -- Utah.; Human ecology -- Utah.; Deserts -- Utah -- Psychological aspects.; Wilderness areas -- Utah -- Psychological aspects.; Utah -- Description and travel.; Utah -- Environmental conditions.
Description: ""It is a simple equation," writes Terry Tempest Williams, "place + people = politics." Nowhere is this more apparent than in the American West, where millions of acres of wilderness are at stake in the redrock desert of southern Utah. "How are we to find our way toward conversation?" she asks. One story at a time. Red traces Williams's lifelong love of and commitment to the desert, as she explores what draws us to a place and keeps us there.

It brings together the lyrical evocations of Coyote's Canyon and Desert Quartet with new essays of great power and originality, essays that range from a family discussion on the desert tortoise to an investigation of slowness to startling encounters with Anasazi artifacts (including a ceremonial sash made of scarlet macaw feathers)."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Homework; title: Coyote's Canyon; title: Red; title: Desert quartet; title: Wild mercy.