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The Black Rock Desert

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521722
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Black Rock Desert written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-hundred-square-mile dry lake bed so desolate that nothing ever grows there. Vast and featureless, Nevada's Black Rock Desert defies visual measurementÑmuch to the consternation of off-roaders who venture out onto this playa only to run out of gas before reaching the other side. It is the largest flat area on the continent, where the sound barrier was broken in a car. And it is a place of total silenceÑnot even birds or insects live hereÑexcept when thousands of humans congregate for the Burning Man Festival on Labor Day weekend. Writer and poet William Fox has demonstrated his familiarity with the Great Basin in such respected books as Mapping the Empty, just as Mark Klett has been documenting the landscape of the American West in his acclaimed photographic studies. Now these accomplished artists turn their combined talents to an appreciation of this desolate corner of North America, where the only change in scenery comes with the shifting pattern of cracks in the earth after seasonal rains. The Black Rock Desert is a philosophical and visual meditation on an extraordinary place virtually devoid of the usual physical features one relies on for orientation and comfort. It invites readers to consider how the mind responds to a place so empty that it's both physically overpowering and psychically disorienting. Klett's photographs are austere yet innovative, admitting the vastness of the desert yet never letting us forget that traces of human passage and perception are ubiquitous. Fox's contemplative essays bring us news of both the natural desert and its cultural occupation, from the explorations of John C. FrŽmont to the exaltations of Burning Man. Together, Fox and Klett have forged an introspective guide to a place so daunting that few dare to venture there alone. For anyone seeking to understand how and why we perceive deserts the way we do, their book charts the rugged intersection of the American landscape and the human spirit.

Black Rock

Author : Peter Goin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984101405
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Black Rock written by Peter Goin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant duet, a photographer and geographer explore this desert realm the size of Delaware, a desolate landscape that nonetheless teems with life-forms that have endured for millennia.

The Archaeology of Burning Man

Author : Carolyn L. White
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082636134X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Burning Man by : Carolyn L. White

Download or read book The Archaeology of Burning Man written by Carolyn L. White and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed of evidence of its existence. The Archaeology of Burning Man examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction. For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archaeological methods to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach, this work in active-site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences.

Gerlach

Author : Richard Phillips Neely
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634921053
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Gerlach written by Richard Phillips Neely and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyhood tale of growing up in an isolated, unbridled town of the Wild West. Five bars, a whorehouse, population 150. An out of control schoolhouse. Life on the trail of a cattle drive. A terrible secret, two great tragedies. Ultimately, a story about the hero who resides in ordinary people.

Black Rock Desert

Author : Christopher Brooks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467130206
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Black Rock Desert written by Christopher Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Rock Desert, located in northwestern Nevada, has been the site of many human activities, from ancient hunters to the arrival of the pioneers to present-day motion pictures, land-speed records, commercial photography, and a weeklong art festival. This book focuses on the art history of the Black Rock Desert playa up until 1990, laying the groundwork for the larger, participatory art events of recent history. Events include art from the Lassen Trail; The Winning of Barbara Worth, starring Gary Cooper, in 1926; and a wild horse roundup as documented by Gus Bundy. Also included are recent works of art such as Doobie Lane and a croquet match in which trucks were used as mallets. Historical images feature the towns of Sulphur and Gerlach, nearby ranches, and the Empire gypsum mine.

Nevada's Black Rock Desert

Author : Sessions S. Wheeler
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870045394
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Nevada's Black Rock Desert written by Sessions S. Wheeler and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1978-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran author Session S. Wheeler and award winning artist Craig Sheppard have come together to give the reader a taste of the history, and stark beauty of one of Nevada's most unique geological, and environmental features.

Burning Book

Author : Jessica Bruder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416928243
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Burning Book written by Jessica Bruder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Mineral Resources of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert to Dream

Author : Barbara Traub
Publisher : Immedium
ISBN 13 : 1597020265
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Desert to Dream written by Barbara Traub and published by Immedium. This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a photographic record of the annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada, from its beginning as a performance art exhibit to its current status as a pop culture destination.

Burning Man

Author : Jennifer Raiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1631062565
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Burning Man written by Jennifer Raiser and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authorized collection of more than two hundred color photos showcases the sculptures, art, stories, and interviews from the annual celebration of artistic expression in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert

NK Guy. Art of Burning Man

Author : NK Guy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836572132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book NK Guy. Art of Burning Man written by NK Guy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One brief week each summer, Black Rock City becomes a temporary community, spiritual adventure, desert rave, social experiment, and home to some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made. For 16 years, writer and photographer NK Guy has traveled deep into the Nevada desert to photograph the installations, happenings, and...

Desert Oracle

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

This Is Burning Man

Author : Brian Doherty
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316028924
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book This Is Burning Man written by Brian Doherty and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doherty provides detailed information on the outrageous festival---its inception, history, growth, and players--for the hundreds of thousands who have attended, as well as those who only wish they had.

Enabling Creative Chaos

Author : Katherine Kang-Ning Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enabling Creative Chaos written by Katherine Kang-Ning Chen and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four years Katherine K. Chen regularly participated in organizing efforts to safely and successfully create a temporary community in the middle of the desert under the hot August sun. Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers. Over the years, Burning Man’s organizers have experimented with different management models; learned how to recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; and developed strategies to handle regulatory agencies and respond to media coverage. This remarkable evolution, Chen reveals, offers important lessons for managers in any organization, particularly in uncertain times.

Ultimate Journeys for Two

Author : Mike Howard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426218397
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Ultimate Journeys for Two written by Mike Howard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the founders of HoneyTrek.com, this inspiring book reveals hidden-gem destinations and insider tips for unforgettable couples travel. In these informative pages, Mike and Anne Howard--officially the World's Longest Honeymooners and founders of the acclaimed travel blog HoneyTrek--whisk you away to journeys of a lifetime. Drawing on their experience traveling together across seven continents, they curate the globe and offer tested-and-approved recommendations for intrepid couples, bringing culture, adventure, and romance to any couple--no matter their age or budget. Chapters are organized by type of destination (for example, beaches, mountains, and deserts) to help travelers discover new places and experiences based on their interests. Each entry focuses on a specific region, getting to the essence of each locale and its one-of-a-kind offerings. The authors reveal the best time to visit, the best places to stay, and recommended activities--each with their own adventure rating to illustrate level of intensity. Special features include funny and insightful stories from the Howards' own adventures, expert advice from other renowned traveling couples, and tips to increase the romance and excitement at each destination. A large map shows every location covered in the book, and each entry has a locator map depicting the city and country. Both entertaining and informative, this book is an invaluable resource and inspiration for a lifetime of travel.

Mapping the Empty

Author : William L. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Empty written by William L. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight Artists and Nevada

Built to Burn

Author : Tony "Coyote" Perez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734965902
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Built to Burn written by Tony "Coyote" Perez and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUILT TO BURN tells the story of how Tony, a San Francisco blues musician, became Coyote, builder of Burning Man's legendary city in the desert, and how he came to lead a ragtag band of circus runaways, freaks and geeks that would become its Department of Public Works. In 1996, Tony was making a decent living as a musician, but his creative juices had run dry: one night onstage, he realized he'd just played an entire sax solo while thinking about his laundry. So when a wild-at-heart friend invites him to something called "Burning Man," he grabs his backpack and hops in the car, unaware that the experience ahead will not only turn him inside out, but alter the course of his life. An essential Burning Man origin story, BUILT TO BURN chronicles the wild uncertainty and creative chaos of the early days in the desert, when the event's future was under constant threat and the organizers were making everything up as they went along. It's a tale of struggle and survival, of friends made and friends lost, as Coyote and his misfit crew battle raging storms, crazed livestock, angry townsfolk and each other, locking horns with the real-life cowboys, Indians, outlaws and outcasts of Nevada's high desert frontier.Told with wry humor and a bit of cowboy philosophy, BUILT TO BURN invites the reader to experience Burning Man as it was before it got civilized, when it was as wild and untamed as anything out of the Old West.