[PDF.65qc] Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)

Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)

[PDF.on58] Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)

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 | #1742676 in Books |  University of Nevada Press |  2002-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.80 x.80 x6.30l,.99 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||5 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Good but not great|By Rob Brennan|I approached this book hoping for an analysis of the impact of emptiness and isolation on the human psyche. No doubt my expectations were influenced by my nationality -- Australian -- where our "playas" (which we call claypans or saltpans) are nearly all isolated and deserted, and the impact of human activity is minimal.

Fox provides|About the Author|William L. Fox is the author of six works of nonfiction exploring the arid regions of the American Southwest. He recently spent a season in the Antarctic as a participant in the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writer

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...

You easily download any file type for your device.Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)   |  William L. Fox. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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