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The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene
Reg Saner
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Description for The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene
paperback. A spiritual exploration and beauty of the Western United States. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; WN; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
The western United States is a region of open space that has profoundly shaped the American character. In The Four-Cornered Falcon, Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power and describes journeys—both physical and spiritual—to areas of the interior West as remote as they are beautiful. He explores northern New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau, home to the ancient Anasazi culture and the weapons laboratories of Los Alamos. He recalls a long night spent in Chaco Canyon, alone and frightened after sustaining a serious rock-climbing injury. He tells of encounters with magpies and coyotes, botanists ... Read more
The western United States is a region of open space that has profoundly shaped the American character. In The Four-Cornered Falcon, Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power and describes journeys—both physical and spiritual—to areas of the interior West as remote as they are beautiful. He explores northern New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau, home to the ancient Anasazi culture and the weapons laboratories of Los Alamos. He recalls a long night spent in Chaco Canyon, alone and frightened after sustaining a serious rock-climbing injury. He tells of encounters with magpies and coyotes, botanists ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bison Books United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803236349
SKU
V9780803236349
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Ref
99-15
About Reg Saner
Reg Saner is a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado and is the author of, most recently, Living Large in Nature: A Writer’s Idea of Creationism, as well as Reaching Keet Seel: Ruin’s Echo and the Anasazi and four poetry collections. His work has been included in over sixty anthologies and he has won an NEA fellowship, the Creede ... Read more
Reviews for The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene
“Some nature writing presents the spectacle of an author being very sensitive. Here the author’s sensitivity is in the service of the great ethical and practical issue of our lifetime. The beauty of this book is not in its ornate prose, but in its plain sense of responsibility.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, New York Times Book Review “Reg Saner is a ... Read more