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Legends of the American Desert

Author : Alex Shoumatoff
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060977696
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1999-08-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superbly rich epic of fact and reflection, Alex Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being that have staked their claim in the Southwest. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination.

Palm Springs Legends

Author : Greg Niemann
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 093265374X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Palm Springs Legends written by Greg Niemann and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palm Springs, long a desert hideaway for celebrities, has a history as unique and varied as its residents. From the original Cahuilla inhabitants of the area, to the settlers who were drawn to the therapeutic waters of the original hot springs, you will get to know the people and stories that made Palm Springs famous.

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.

Myths and Legends of the Desert

Author : John Malam
Publisher : Kingfisher
ISBN 13 : 9780753455258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Desert written by John Malam and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Legends of the Desert explores the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians and shows how the gods they believed in helped them make sense of the world around them--from the rising and setting of the sun to the annual flooding of the Nile River. Discover how the pharaohs influenced the course of civilization in Egypt, and learn about the mythology surrounding scorpions and scarab beetles.

Desert Notebooks

Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093540
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Desert Notebooks written by Ben Ehrenreich and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.

Yaqui Myths and Legends

Author :
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816504671
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Yaqui Myths and Legends written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis reflect this people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory.

Angels Sweep the Desert Floor

Author : Miriam Chaikin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395978252
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Angels Sweep the Desert Floor written by Miriam Chaikin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eighteen stories based on the Bible which tell how angels respond to God's commands to ease the way for Moses and the Israelites as they cross the wilderness after being freed from slavery in Egypt.

In the Desert of Waiting

Author : Annie Fellows Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Desert of Waiting written by Annie Fellows Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians

Author : Francisco Patencio
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839743131
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians written by Francisco Patencio and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Francisco Patencio recounts the stories and legends of his people in this slim, but, invaluable record of the Palm Springs Native Americans. Originally published in 1943 by the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the tales and traditions of the Cahuilla are kept alive in the new edition.

Written in Blood

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554692717
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Written in Blood written by John Wilson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the harsh desert world of the Arizona Territory and northern Mexico during the 1870s, Written in Blood, the first installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy, follows young Jim Doolen as he attempts to find some trace of the father who abandoned his family ten years earlier. As he travels through a scorched landscape very different from the lush West Coast forests of his home, Jim crosses paths with an assortment of intriguing characters, including an Apache warrior, a cave-dwelling mystic, an old Mexican revolutionary and a mysterious cowboy. And with each encounter he learns something more of the strange world he has entered and adds one more link in a chain that leads back to his father-and back to a dark, violent past. As his story approaches its thrilling conclusion in a ruined Mexican hacienda, Jim comes to realize that his father's life was much more complex than he had imagined, and that, in discovering his past, he has opened the way to his future.

Legends of the American Desert

Author : Alex Shoumatoff
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831817
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his brilliant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination. In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. And as he ventures across time and space, blending many genres--history, anthropology, natural science, to name only a few--he brings us a wealth of information on chile addiction, the diffusion of horses, the formation of the deserts and mountain ranges, the struggles of the Navajo to preserve their culture, and countless other aspects of this place we think we know. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert is a superbly rich epic of fact and reflection destined to take its place among such classics of regional portraiture as Ian Frazier's Great Plains. Alex Shoumatoff has created an exuberant celebration of a singularly American reality.

Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls

Author : Kaela Rivera
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062947575
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls written by Kaela Rivera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a powerful desert spirit kidnaps her sister, Cece Rios must learn forbidden magic to get her back, in this own voices middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of The Storm Runner and Aru Shah and the End of Time. Living in the remote town of Tierra del Sol is dangerous, especially in the criatura months, when powerful spirits roam the desert and threaten humankind. But Cecelia Rios has always believed there was more to the criaturas, much to her family’s disapproval. After all, only brujas—humans who capture and control criaturas—consort with the spirits, and brujeria is a terrible crime. When her older sister, Juana, is kidnapped by El Sombrerón, a powerful dark criatura, Cece is determined to bring Juana back. To get into Devil’s Alley, though, she’ll have to become a bruja herself—while hiding her quest from her parents, her town, and the other brujas. Thankfully, the legendary criatura Coyote has a soft spot for humans and agrees to help her on her journey. With him at her side, Cece sets out to reunite her family—and maybe even change what it means to be a bruja along the way.

Desert Lore of Southern California

Author : Choral Pepper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932653260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Desert Lore of Southern California written by Choral Pepper and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking the mystery and magic of southern California's desert, this collection of tales weaves fact and fancy into a tapestry of lost mines, Indian myths, historic vignettes, and legendary characters.

The Natural History of the Trans-Pecos

Author : Brian R. Chapman
Publisher : Integrative Natural History Se
ISBN 13 : 9781623498610
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of the Trans-Pecos written by Brian R. Chapman and published by Integrative Natural History Se. This book was released on 2020 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Complete with an introduction chronicling the stories of biologists and naturalists who have explored and defined the ecological areas of Texas over time, The Natural History of the Trans-Pecos explores the formation of the region more than 600 million years ago, the adaptability of its ecosystems, and the conservation efforts to keep these wildly diverse environments flourishing. Detailed descriptions, vivid anecdotes, and vibrant pictures of the features that make this region so unique emphasize the rugged grandeur of the Trans-Pecos"--

Legends of the American Desert

Author : Alex Shoumatoff
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines history, anthropology, natural science, and personal narrative to provide a portrait of the American Southwest, looking at the variety of people and experiences that populate the area, focusing on the struggle between different cultures for access to water, and examining many other aspects of the diverse region.

Victorio's War

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554698820
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Victorio's War written by John Wilson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a scout for the Army, in 1880, Jim Doolen finds himself caught in the middle of a brutal war with Victorio's Apaches along the Mexican border.

The Southwest in American Literature and Art

Author : David Warfield Teague
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816517848
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Southwest in American Literature and Art written by David Warfield Teague and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing ways in which indigenous cultures described the American Southwest, David Teague persuasively argues against the destructive approach that Americans currently take to the region. Included are Native American legends and Spanish and Hispanic literature. As he traces ideas about the desert, Teague shows how literature and art represent the Southwest as a place to be sustained rather than transformed. 14 illustrations.