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In this collection of letters, the authors critically examine the ecological principles and reality of the ""desert saint"" Van Dyke. The letters depict a privileged, patrician, and pampered member of the upper class, who saw most of the deserts from plush railroad cars and hotel rooms.
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"This volume performs a service for those of us who are, in a sense, reworking the ground that John Van Dyke and his contemporaries prepared nearly a century ago. Not everyone will share Teague's and Wild's enthusiasm for Van Dyke and The Desert, but readers of this trim and attractive volume will certainly come away from it with a new appreciation for the man and the cultural production of an American region." -Eric Gary Anderson, ISLE
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David W. Teague teaches American Literature at the University of Delaware and is the author/editor of several books. Peter Wild is one of the foremost poets of the American West. After working as a cowboy, fighting fires for the U.S. Forest Service, and serving in the Special Troops of the U.S. Army, Peter Wild went on to write numerous articles for such publications as the New York Times, Sierra, Smithsonian, and Western American Literature. He has written over seventy books, of history, literary criticism, and biography, and of his twenty volumes of poetry, Cochise was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona and resides in Tucson.
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- PublisherUniversity of Nevada Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0874172942
- ISBN 13 9780874172942
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
- EditorTeague David W, Wild Peter
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The author of The Desert, the book that made the American landscape accessible to the mainstream mind, was much less like his fellow environmental prophets John Muir and Henry David Thoreau than he would have had us believe. Van Dyke claimed to have wandered ""alone on horseback for thousands of miles through the American Southwest and northern Mexico,"" as readers of The Desertnow in the millions since the book was published in 1901were told. He did not. In The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke, Teague and Wild unmask the desert saint with Van Dykes own recently discovered letters. These letters depict a privileged, patrician, and pampered member of the upper-class. His incriminating correspondence reveals that he saw most of the desert from plush railroad cars and grand hotel rooms. In the introduction, the editors clear up many misconceptions scholars currently hold about Van Dykes ecological principles, about his outdoorsmanship, and about his trip through the desert itself. As the centennial of the publication of The Desert approaches, this lively collection of letters helps set the record straight. The John C. Van Dyke unveiled in The Secret Life is a more varied character than we had supposedstill worthy of much admiration for his remarkable accomplishments, but still mysterious, and not the man we thought him to be. Scholars shed new light on Van Dyke and his nature-writing classic. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780874172942
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