Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest

✍ Scribed by Shoumatoff, Alex

Publisher: Random House Digital;Distributed by Random House, Knopf
Year: 1997;2013
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Combines history, anthropology, natural science, and personal narrative to provide a portrait of the American Southwest, looking at the variety of people and experiences that populate the area, focusing on the struggle between different cultures for access to water, and examining many other aspects of the diverse region.

✦ Subjects

HISTORY--United States--State & Local--General;Landeskunde;Reisebericht;Travel;Civilization;Biography;;Shoumatoff, Alex -- Travel -- Southwest, New;Shoumatoff, Alex;Southwest, New -- Description and travel;Southwest, New -- Civilization;HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General;New Southwest;USA -- Südweststaaten

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