| Desert Time Contributor(s): Kappel-Smith, Diana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816514321 ISBN-13: 9780816514328 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: New Englander Diana Kappel-Smith explored the great deserts of the American West over an 18-month period. Traveling largely alone through the Southwest and parts of Idaho and Oregon, she logged 25,000 miles and discovered facets of the desert--and its human inhabitants--that may surprise even long-time residents. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature |
| Dewey: 508.79 |
| LCCN: 93045724 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.06" W x 9.01" (1.00 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New Englander Diana Kappel-Smith explored the great deserts of the American West over an 18-month period. Traveling largely alone through the Southwest and parts of Idaho and Oregon, she logged 25,000 miles and discovered facets of the desert--and its human inhabitants--that may surprise even long-time residents. You come to trust her company and to savor her observations: she is the sort of guide who gestures at what you would otherwise step across--or on--without noticing. She calls her collection 'an introduction to particulars.' These she infuses with radiance. --Los Angeles Times Book Review With prose that is both lyrical and down-to-earth, Kappel-Smith makes readers aware of the fragility of the desert and the necessity to preserve these wonderful, alien and mysterious places. --San Francisco Chronicle We glimpse moments of experience, rendered both in words and in conscientious line drawings. The book has a gentle, meandering tone. It consciously refuses to manufacture dramatic events. --Christian Science Monitor |