Desert Oracle
Title | Desert Oracle PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Layne |
Publisher | MCD |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2020-12-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0374722382 |
The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.
Desert Magazine
Title | Desert Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Southwest, New |
ISBN |
Desert Notebooks
Title | Desert Notebooks PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2020-07-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1640093540 |
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Desert Magazine
Title | Desert Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Wild |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Desert magazine (Palm Desert, Calif.) |
ISBN |
The Desert Magazine
Title | The Desert Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Southwest, New |
ISBN |
Blue Desert
Title | Blue Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bowden |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1988-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780816510818 |
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
Title | A Natural History of the Mojave Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence R. Walker |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0816532621 |
Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.