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1 online resource (xi, 117 pages) |
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Deeper in -- Mad Kelly -- Sun chief -- The singer -- Redwall -- No man -- Blind trail -- Roadman -- Encircled mountain -- Brothers of light -- Stone lions -- Under the Rim -- Returning |
Summary |
In Navajo country, where the land is thick with legends and forgotten histories, a writer sets out to find a place that no longer exists except on a few old maps: Burntwater. The story opens when two friends get stuck in a remote pocket of the desert as a winter storm moves in. They are taking a wandering route across the Four Corners region, curving through Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona on a long arc into the mythic heart of the country |
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As they travel, the author calls up past experiences in this land where the past flows seamlessly into the present. He remembers a medicine man whose chanting could start the cold engine of a Volkswagen. He describes an act of sabotage against an oil company by two Vietnam vets armed with deer rifles. He recalls how a winter of herding sheep for a Navajo family and a search for a Hopi known as the Sun Chief led him further into a human landscape as strange and compelling as the terrain. Reaching the Shrine of the Stone Lions, the writer recounts a near-fatal descent into the Grand Canyon, where he finds a way to reconnect with the beauty of life. There his journey ends with an emotional punch that goes straight to the mind and the heart |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Thybony, Scott -- Travel -- Four Corners Region
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Thybony, Scott -- Travel -- Four Corners Region
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Thybony, Scott fast |
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Indians of North America -- Four Corners Region -- Anecdotes
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NATURE -- Essays.
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Indians of North America
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Travel
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Four Corners Region -- Description and travel
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Four Corners Region -- Biography -- Anecdotes
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United States -- Four Corners Region
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Biographies
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Anecdotes
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816532674 |
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0816532672 |
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