Before the publication of John C. Van Dyke's The Desert in 1901, Americans thought of deserts as scorpion-infested wastelands - with names like Devil's Domain and the Lands That God Forgot. The Desert sought to draw attention to the beauty that existed in the American west. With an introduction by Peter Wild, this edition offers insights and truths about this author and his best-known work. Van Dyke was not, it seems, the plaster saint of the desert. He was not entirely honest with his readers about the journeys that ...
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Before the publication of John C. Van Dyke's The Desert in 1901, Americans thought of deserts as scorpion-infested wastelands - with names like Devil's Domain and the Lands That God Forgot. The Desert sought to draw attention to the beauty that existed in the American west. With an introduction by Peter Wild, this edition offers insights and truths about this author and his best-known work. Van Dyke was not, it seems, the plaster saint of the desert. He was not entirely honest with his readers about the journeys that inspired the book, and his natural history includes serious errors. But in this reading, Wild notes, Van Dyke emerges as a more fascinating writer and his work becomes more intriguing.
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