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Author : Venetta Bond Kelsey
Publisher : Kelsey Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780944510032
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Life on the Black Rock Desert written by Venetta Bond Kelsey and published by Kelsey Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachael Freeman Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781630633462
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Black Rock Desert Trilogy written by Rachael Freeman Long and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luckily we're safe, decided Jack, watching the wolves pace below the boulder, licking their chops.Then his heart sank. But now what? How are we going to escape?Jack is thrilled to be back at his cabin in the Black Rock mountains with his trusted and clever friends Sonny, a coyote, and Pinta, a little bat, after a year apart.But the mood quickly turns somber when Jack's Uncle Ray goes missing. In a quest to find Ray, Jack and his friends are plunged into the dark world of an international poaching ring. The stakes are high, with millions of dollars at risk, creating dangerous enemies.As Jack and his friends head deep into the heart of the Black Rock Mountain Range, they dodge bullets and wolves and finally learn about ancient rock art carvings of the sun that hold the secret to their safe passage.Can Jack bring justice to those who are destroying their lives? Time will tell in this explosive second book of the Black Rock Desert Trilogy: Valley of Fire, where Jack must rely on his wit and courage to protect his family and friends from evil forces at work in the Black Rock Desert.Pinta the pallid bat and Sonny the coyote are unlikely companions for ten-year-old Jack in the Black Rock Desert. But their journey gives young readers an exciting adventure story and teaches them a little about life--and wildlife--in the wilderness.�Jim RobbinsScience Journalist, the New York Times
Author : Carolyn L. White
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082636134X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
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.
Author : Peter Goin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984101405
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
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.
Author : Richard Phillips Neely
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634921053
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)
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.
Author : Barbara Traub
Publisher : Immedium
ISBN 13 : 1597020265
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
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.
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521722
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
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.
Author : Jessica Bruder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416928243
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977880652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Compass of the Ephemeral written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada artist and Burning Man event co-founder Will Roger photographs the ever changing cityscape and transformation of Black Rock City as it changed throughout the years. The book contains a substantial collection of aerial photos as never seen before. A photographic collaboration between Will Roger and Burning Man architect Rod Garrett, Introduction by Burning Man co-founder Harley Dubois. Contributions from Independent scholar William Fox and Archaeologist Alexei Vranich, Available in hardback format, 216 pages.
Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
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.
Author : Sessions S. Wheeler
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870045394
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (453 download)
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.
Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385539894
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Immeasurable World written by William Atkins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK) "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."—Joy Williams In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area and Associated Wilderness, and Other Contiguous Lands in Nevada, Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Publisher : Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878425556
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Hidden Life of the Desert written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by Mountain Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a photographic tour of the life cycles of the desert, where all creatures must adapt to extremes of heat and cold and the coming and going of the rains.
Author : Nicholas Clapp
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781941384053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Old Magic written by Nicholas Clapp and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a thousand generations, desert shamans of the far West sought order in the stars and in the mysteries and wonder of their grand, if unforgiving landscape. When summoned, they doctored the stricken, be they stoic elders or frightened little children. They conjured rains. Taking leave of reality, they rode whirlwinds and soared in magical flight. They epitomized a native American ability "to relate to the land in ways beyond a Western way of thinking." They're gone now. But there remain telling accounts of how, day-to-day, they lived: how omens foretold a shaman's destiny, how he learned his craft, how he could exercise his power for both good and evil. How a shaman could travel to the land of the dead and (hopefully) return. Drawing on the lore of a dozen tribes, Old Magic conjures the year-to-year life of a shaman - a life of service to his people, a life fraught with torment and danger, a life often taking a man or woman to the edge of madness.
Author : Ruth Soffer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486282343
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)
Download or read book North American Desert Life Coloring Book written by Ruth Soffer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 40 illustrations: Gila monster, kit fox, prairie dog, other animals; also plants: cactus, rice grass, saltbush, many more.
Author : Jennifer Raiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1631062565
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
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
