Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

ISBN: 0375725180

Author: Williams, Terry Tempest

Condition: New

In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of Americas Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the countrys most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the deserts power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise-an animal that can teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land-an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.