{"product_id":"the-sierra-club-desert-reader","title":"The Sierra Club Desert Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.  Paperback white quarto with orange to spine. xxiv, 307 pages; 21 cm Price label to back cover. Extremely mild rubbing to head and foot of spine. Near fine. . Paperback. ISBN: 0871564262\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: The Arabian and Indian deserts: Ruins \/ Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A prayer \u0026amp; invocation to the Prince of rain \/ Eleazar Ha-Kallir -- The wilderness of Judea \/ Gertrude Bell -- Light \/ Pierre Loti -- From Jum'a al-Fararja to Jazi Al 'Aradi \/ Jum'a Al-Fararja -- Lawrence comes to Arabia \/ T.E. Lawrence -- Arabia deserta \/ Charles M. Doughty -- The historic fart \/ Iraqi folktale -- The Persian desert \/ Marco Polo; Inner Asia: The road to Ashkabad \/ Ella R. Christie -- A nightmare on the Turkmeni dunes \/ Andrei Platonov -- The Tebbad \/ Arminius Vambery -- High desert \/ Theodore \u0026amp; Kermit Roosevelt -- Prester John \/ Sir John Mandeville -- Distances of the Gobi \/ Mongolian wedding song -- The lake among the singing dunes \/ Mildred Cable -- On foot across the Gobi \/ Slavomir Rawicz -- Exile \/ Li T'ai Po \u0026amp; Li Yi; Australia: Where the frost comes from \/ Noongahburrah folktale -- Aborigines \/ William Dampier \u0026amp; James Cook -- The Simpson desert \/ Charles Sturt -- Ayers Rock \/ Baldwin Spencer \u0026amp; F.J. Gillen -- Native cat stakes out his territory \/ Pintupi folktale -- Rain \/ Tingarri song -- The music of the desert \/ Bruce Chatwin; Antarctica: World's end \/ Edgar Allan Poe -- Death in the polar desert \/ William Bowers \u0026amp; Robert Scott -- Cold \/ Richard Byrd -- Admiralty Bay \/ David Campbell. Abstract: Gathers essays, folktales, poetry, and other writings about deserts, desert ecology, and the fragility of the desert environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McNamee, Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055889142018,"sku":"89735.0","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_4_a092fdf3-1f0f-4ec4-80a5-0fe6abcd17f9.jpg?v=1744087979","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/the-sierra-club-desert-reader","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}