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The Black Rock Desert
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0816521727 |
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It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-hundred-square-mile dry lake bed so desolate that nothing ever grows there. Vast and featureless, Nevada's Black Rock Desert defies visual measurementÑmuch to the consternation of off-roaders who venture out onto this playa only to run out of gas before reaching the other side. It is the largest flat area on the continent, where the sound barrier was broken in a car. And it is a place of total silenceÑnot even birds or insects live hereÑexcept when thousands of humans congregate for the Burning Man Festival on Labor Day weekend. Writer and poet William Fox has demonstrated his familiarity with the Great Basin in such respected books as Mapping the Empty, just as Mark Klett has been documenting the landscape of the American West in his acclaimed photographic studies. Now these accomplished artists turn their combined talents to an appreciation of this desolate corner of North America, where the only change in scenery comes with the shifting pattern of cracks in the earth after seasonal rains. The Black Rock Desert is a philosophical and visual meditation on an extraordinary place virtually devoid of the usual physical features one relies on for orientation and comfort. It invites readers to consider how the mind responds to a place so empty that it's both physically overpowering and psychically disorienting. Klett's photographs are austere yet innovative, admitting the vastness of the desert yet never letting us forget that traces of human passage and perception are ubiquitous. Fox's contemplative essays bring us news of both the natural desert and its cultural occupation, from the explorations of John C. FrŽmont to the exaltations of Burning Man. Together, Fox and Klett have forged an introspective guide to a place so daunting that few dare to venture there alone. For anyone seeking to understand how and why we perceive deserts the way we do, their book charts the rugged intersection of the American landscape and the human spirit.
Nevada s Black Rock Desert
Author | : Sessions S. Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1978-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0870045393 |
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran author Session S. Wheeler and award winning artist Craig Sheppard have come together to give the reader a taste of the history, and stark beauty of one of Nevada's most unique geological, and environmental features.
Life on the Black Rock Desert
Author | : Venetta Bond Kelsey,Michael R. Kelsey |
Publsiher | : Kelsey Pub |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0944510035 |
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Black Rock
Author | : Peter Goin,Paul F. Starrs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Black Rock Desert (Nev.) |
ISBN | : 0984101403 |
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In a brilliant duet, a photographer and geographer explore this desert realm the size of Delaware, a desolate landscape that nonetheless teems with life-forms that have endured for millennia.
The Archaeology of Burning Man
Author | : Carolyn L. White |
Publsiher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780826361349 |
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Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed of evidence of its existence. The Archaeology of Burning Man examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction. For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archaeological methods to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach, this work in active-site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences.
The Black Rock Desert
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Author | : Sessions S. Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Black Rock Desert (Nev.) |
ISBN | : OCLC:1254064950 |
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Emigrant Trails in the Black Rock Desert
Author | : Peggy McGuckian Jones |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Black Rock Desert (Nev.) |
ISBN | : PSU:000018541687 |
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San Rafael Western Legacy District and the Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : PSU:000047032408 |
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