Wandering in American Deserts
Discovery, Visions, Redemption
- 2024 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Travel (Adult Nonfiction)
In this volume we visit the strange Joshua tree, we see rock caves fit for shamans, earth reshaped by the force of earthquakes, an ancient sea brought to life by human folly, the night sky as it was in the beginning. We encounter birds, coyotes and lizards. We hear the power of silence. And we meet people: members of the Cahuilla tribe, cowboy poets, inventors and artists, and eccentrics who thrive in the desert air: a wizard, a drop-out, a misfit who finds salvation in painting a mountain.
