Record details

• ISBN: 0805031332
• ISBN: 9780805031331
• Physical Description: xii, 400 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: 1st Owl Book ed.
• Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 1996, �1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A John Macrae book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-398).

Formatted Contents Note:

1927-37: Stump Creek, West Virginia -- Hallelujah on the bum -- How it was -- Drunk in the afternoon -- Journal IV: November 10, 1951-Edinburgh, Scotland -- From the fool's progress -- From the brave cowboy -- Author's introduction to desert solitaire -- The first morning -- The serpents of paradise -- Polemic; industrial tourism anhd the national parks -- Tukuhnikivats, the island in the desert -- Appalachian pictures -- Appalachia, good-bye -- My life as a P.I.G., or the true adventures of smokey the cop -- From black sun -- 1971-77: henry in love-an interlude.

The wooden shoe conspiracy -- The raid at comb wash -- Death Valley junk -- Meeting the bear -- Aravaipa Canyon -- A Colorado River journal -- From good news -- Desert images -- The damnation of a canyon -- Gather at the river -- River solitaire: a daybook -- Free speech: the cowboy and his cow -- Theory of anarchy -- Eco-defense -- Immigration and liberal taboos -- A writer's credo -- Postlude to The Fool's Progress.

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