The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become
romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of
writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual
storytelling of filmmakers. In this spirited, personal, beautifully
written book, Peter Wild explores the lives and works of sixteen
writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opal desert.
Wild begins with Cabeza de Vaca, whose Relacion of his desert
wanderings sent treasure-hungry Spaniards searching for cities of
gold. He goes on to discuss the works of both widely read and
lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, including
such luminaries as Mary Austin, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey,
Ann Zwinger, and Charles Bowden. He links all the writers as
explorers of one kind or another, searching for tangible or
intangible treasures, some finding and some losing their dreams in
the opal desert.
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