America, New Mexico
By: Robert Leonard Reid.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Description: In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexico - with all of its gifts and challenges - within.

Having traveled and hiked countless miles throughout the state, Reid knows New Mexico's breathtaking landscape intimately. But he knows the human landscape as well: its artists and poets, medicine men and businessmen, preachers and politicians, Hispanics and Anglos. He knows that amid the glittering mansions of Santa Fe there are homeless shelters, that the Indians of myth and legend combat alcoholism and poverty, and that toxic waste lurks beneath a land of almost surreal beauty.

America, New Mexico is a book about land, sky, and hope by a writer whose passion and inspiring prose invite us to see the promise and possibilities of reconnecting with the natural world. It is unflinching in its depiction of the adversities facing New Mexicans and indeed all Americans. But above all, it searches behind and beyond these troubling issues to find, standing staunchly against them, a quiet and unshakable confidence rooted in New Mexico's natural world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244).
Table of contents: title: Tumble weeds; title: Journeys through space and time; title: A shelter in the sky; title: Death a distant plain; title: The voice of the flower; title: River of wings; title: Desert genesis; title: Adrift in the Permian Sea; title: Rebuilding the clouds; title: Into the secret mountains.