Netting the Sun: A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert - Couverture souple

Adams, Melvin R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0874222362 ISBN 13 : 9780874222364

Editeur : Washington State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Carefully woven, Netting the Sun offers a diversity of natural and human stories from a landscape seemingly empty and forlorn to passing casual travelers. This surprising interpretation of south central Oregon's botany, geology, climate, wildlife, ethnography, and history reveals what a truly special place the high desert is. Born in the sagebrush community of Lakeview in 1941, the author moved on following high school graduation. But as with many native sons and daughters from America's out-of-the-way places, the urge to return to his roots proved irresistible in middle age. "I endeavored to write this collection about the Oregon desert because of my childhood there," Adams writes, "but also because it is a place of startling mystery, subdued danger, and beauty."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Melvin R. Adams resides at Richland in central Washington's arid Columbia Basin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Washington State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874222362
• ISBN 13: 9780874222364
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible