The white heart of Mojave
Subtitle: an adventure with the outdoors of the desert
By: Edna Brush Perkins ; edited by Peter Wild.
Contributors: Wild, Peter, 1940-
Series: American land classics
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Perkins, Edna Brush -- Travel -- California; Landscape -- California -- Mojave Desert; Landscape -- Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.); Mojave Desert (Calif.) -- Description and travel; Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Description and travel
Genres: Description and travel.
Description: "An ardent early suffragette, Edna Brush Perkins set out in 1920 with her friend, Charlotte Hannahs Jordan, to journey into the Mojave, both women seeking to escape civilization and their struggle to secure voting rights for women. The Mojave at that time was considered to be a desolate, inaccessible region - part of the fading American frontier. Originally published in 1922, The White Heart of Mojave is Perkins's account of this journey." "Perkins's evocative writing describes the landscape and the people she encounters. As editor Peter Wild writes, this is ultimately the story of two wealthy women who enter Death Valley "as a sort of middle-aged lark" and "emerge from the trip profoundly changed.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-288).
Originally published: New York : Boni and Liveright, 1922.