Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts de Limerick, Patricia Nelson

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.: University of New Mexco Press, 2001. Firsst Edition Stated . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 218 Pages Indexed. Evidence of label removal on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps and interior text pages are flawless. Deserts represent nature in its extreme. Studies of American attitudes toward nature have generally dealt with more accommodating environments; this book adds a new dimension to American environmental history. Tracing the development of American attitudes toward the desert, the author uses case studies from the writings of eight individuals, from John C. Fremont and Mark Twain in the mid-nineteenth century, to Joseph Wood Krutch and Edward Abbey in the mid- to late-twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the southwestern deserts alarmed and even angered Americans. The desert was the greatest obstruction to American expansion and to the nation's optimistic belief in Manifest Destiny. The scarcity of food and water, along with the unfamiliar and alien… Leer más

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Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2001. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 224 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.