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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert Paperback - 2002
by Terry Tempest Williams
A beloved nature writer and environmental voice, Williams writes emotionally and even erotically of her relationship with the red-rock landscape surrounding her home outside Moab, closely analyzing the wildlife, human characters, and Anasazi petroglyphs of this magical, arid region. 1 map.
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It is a simple equation: place + people = politics.
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The beloved author of "Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red" 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 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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"Lush elegies to the wilderness. . . . Earthy, spiritual, evocative." --"The Boston Globe
"Erotic, scientific, literary. . . . Her intimacy with this landscape is complex and passionate." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Her finest writing . . . Use[s] pure language in the face of laws that need to be changed and lawmakers and citizens who need to understand that there is another way to see." --"Portland Oregonian
As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams 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.
"
"Lush elegies to the wilderness. . . . Earthy, spiritual, evocative." --"The Boston Globe
"Erotic, scientific, literary. . . . Her intimacy with this landscape is complex and passionate." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Her finest writing . . . Use[s] pure language in the face of laws that need to be changed and lawmakers and citizens who need to understand that there is another way to see." --"Portland Oregonian
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- Title Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
- Author Terry Tempest Williams
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-10-08
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780375725180 / 0375725180
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.18 x 0.65 in (20.57 x 13.16 x 1.65 cm)
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: Utah
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Natural history - Utah, Utah - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006277714
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.92
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- Kliatt, 03/01/2003, Page 53
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