VOICES OF THE DESERT BOOK

Voices in the Desert echoes the observation that the American Southwest has been inspiring a prodigious wealth of literature from the Spanish blackrobe missionaries of the eighteenth century to today's passionate naturalists and avid environmentalists. Here, in ten evocative, provocative, and even elegiac essays that span more than 200 years, are the sights, the sounds, the tastes, and the smells of the southwestern deserts as described by writers who, for one reason and another, have found this brutally beautiful terrain irresistible. Complemented by sixty-five stunning full-color images by Jeff Garton, one of the Southwest's leading contemporary photographers, and thoughtfully introduced by editor Lawrence W. Cheek, the essays in Voices in the Desert leave the reader with the promise that his or her view of this legendary land will remain forever changed.