The opal desert
Subtitle: explorations of fantasy and reality in the American Southwest
By: Peter Wild.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Deserts -- Southwest, New.; Desert ecology -- Southwest, New.; Natural history -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-[211]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Cabeza de Vaca: flaming entrails, burning trees; title: William L. Manly: the classic account of deserta horribilis; title: J. Ross Browne & Samuel W. Cozzens: happy travelers through lost lands; title: Charles F. Lummis: the showman with the shining right hand; title: Mary Austin: beauty, madness, death, and God; title: John C. Van Dyke & the desert aestheticians; title: William T. Hornaday: the happy travelers, part 2; title: John Wesley Powell & William E. Smythe: God smiles on the irrigationists; title: J. Smeaton Chase: our Araby; title: Joseph Wood Krutch: the pronuba moth and the modern dilemma; title: Edward Abbey: Ned Ludd arrives on the desert; title: Ann Zwinger & Charles Bowden: pondering these things in her heart; Tacitus flips out; title: Peter Reyner Banham: wheeled voyeur from overseas; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.