The Void, the Grid & the Sign
Traversing the Great Basin
What Barry Lopez did in expanding our vision of the frozen North in Arctic Dreams, William Fox has done in broadening our perceptions of the desert expanses of the West's Great Basin.Roughly a quarter of a million acres of land spanning much of Utah and most of Nevada, the Great Basin is the highest and driest of the American deserts, a vast empty tract on the nineteenth-century maps of our continent. Explorers and cartographers found it imponderable; pioneers and settlers found it uninhabitable. And today the Great Basin remains a largely unknown and forbidding landscape, one that continues to exercise a powerful influence on human desire an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87417-618-6
- EAN: 9780874176186
- Produktnummer: 1370033
- Verlag: University of Nevada Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H21.9 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.8 cm 296 g
- Gewicht: 296
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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