This lively book traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from the writings of John C Fr+(c)mont, William Lewis Manly, Mark Twain, William Ellsworth Smythe, John Van Dyke, George Wharton James, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Edward Abbey.
| ISBN: | 9780826308085 |
| Publication date: | 30th May 1985 |
| Author: | Patricia Nelson Limerick |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Genres: |
Geography Literary studies: general |