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ZIN Product Number: 10007958
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 533 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060977698
Release Date: Jan 11, 1990
| |  | | | In Brief
Shoumatoff offers a series of reflections on the American Southwest, where, he argues, "'everything comes down to the dryness.' . . . {He} focuses on past and present conditions of human, animal, and plant habitation--all in the face of the need to adapt to the scarcity of water." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
In this 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, be 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 narco-traffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. And as he ventures across time and space, blending many genres - history, anthropology, natural science, to name only a few - he brings us a wealth of information on chile addiction, the diffusion of horses, the formation of the deserts and mountain ranges, the struggles of the Navajo to preserve their culture, and countless other aspects of this place we think we know.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
An exploration of the many alternative ways of life that have flourished in the Southwest, and how the landscape has been particularly friendly to refugees, fugitives, and utopians from the Mormons to the Biosphere experiment.
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