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John Bancroft, Editor
Office of Arid Lands Studies
The University of Arizona
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Epigraph
From The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
If the desert were a woman, I know well what she would
be like:
deep-breasted, broad in the hips, tawny, with tawny
hair, great masses of it lying smooth along her perfect
curves, full lipped like a sphinx, but now heavy-lidded like
one, eyes sane and steady as the polished jewel of her skies, such a countenance as should make men serve without desiring
her, such a largeness to her mind as should make their sins
of no account, passionate, but not necessitous, patient -- and
you could not move her, no, not if you had all the earth to
give, so much as one tawny hair's-breadth beyond her own
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Note:
The Bones of Planet Earth
by John M. Bancroft
The Desert As Literature: A Survey and a Sampling
by Peter Wild
Wind, Sand and Stars Revisited
by Charles F. Hutchinson
From The Desert
by John C. Van Dyke
Desert Reading 1: Stephen Cox
Desert Reading 2: Adel S. Gamal
From Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Desert Reading 3: Jerrold S. Green
Desert Reading 4: Charles F. Hutchinson
From Sonora
by Ignaz Pfefferkorn
Desert Reading 5: Gregory McNamee
Desert Reading 6: John Olsen
From Travels in Arabia Deserta
by Charles M. Doughty
Desert Reading 7: Ray Ring
Desert Reading 8: Judy Nolte Temple
From The Desert
by Pierre Loti
Desert Reading 9: Peter Wild
Desert Reading 10: Joseph Wilder
From The Desert and the Sown
by Gertrude Bell
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