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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

Paperback

Environmental StudiesNature Writing

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0375725180
ISBN13: 9780375725180
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 8 2002
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.

As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert's power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise-an animal that can teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land-an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.

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