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Subject(s)

• Southwest, New—Description and travel [Browse]
• Nevada—Description and travel [Browse]
• Southwest, New—History, Local [Browse]
• Playas—Southwest, New [Browse]
• Landscapes—Social aspects—Southwest, New [Browse]
• Landscapes—Southwest, New—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Natural history—Southwest, New [Browse]
• Southwest, New—In art [Browse]
• Fox, William L. 1949-—Travel—Southwest, New [Browse]

Series

Environmental arts and humanities series. [More in this series]

Summary note

• "Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin.
• Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes

"Winner of the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award for 2002"--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220).

Contents

• The Myth of the Empty: An Introduction
• A Tour of the Playa, Part I: The Mojave
• A Tour of the Playa, Part II: The Nevada Test Site
• A Tour of the Playa, Part III: Wendover
• A Tour of the Playa, Coda: Owens Dry Lake
• Painting the Playa: Smoke Creek Desert
• Burning Man: Black Rock Desert
• Rediscovery: An Afterword.

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ISBN

0874175232 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002004784

OCLC

49531469

RCP

C - S

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