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Secret Life of John C.Van Dyke by John C.Van Dyke & David W. Teague & Peter Wild
Selected Letters
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.The author of The Desert, the book that made that landscape accessible to the mainstream mind, claimed to have wandered "alone on horseback for thousands of miles through the American Southwest and northern Mexico," as his readers--now in the millions since the book was published in 1901--were told. He did not. The desert saint is unmasked by his own recently discovered letters, revealing a privileged, pampered member of the upper-class; his incriminating correspondence shows that he saw most of the desert from plush railroad cars and grand hotel rooms. The editors clear up many misconceptions scholars currently hold about Van Dyke's ecological principles, his outdoorsmanship, and his trip through the desert itself. Unveiled here is a much more varied character than we had supposed--still worthy of admiration for his remarkable accomplishments, and still mysterious, but not the man we thought him to be. |
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| Author(s) : John C.Van Dyke & Peter Wild | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0874172942 | ISBN-13 : 9780874172942 |
| RRP : £22.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Western Literature Series
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 31/05/1997
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page Length : 200mm
Page Size : 216mm