Legends of the American Desert - Hardcover

Shoumatoff, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394569156 ISBN 13: 9780394569154

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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Book by Shoumatoff Alex

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Blending elements of fact, myth, and personal reflection, a fascinating journey inside the multiplicity of the American Southwest explores a rich diversity of people, landscape, and experience, including the Mormons, Navajo, Biosphere, Jewish conversos, and modern-day drug dealers. 15,000 first printing.

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liant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination.
    
In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other.  From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0394569156
• ISBN 13: 9780394569154
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 533