Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty

by William L. Fox

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Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0874175232

ISBN13:9780874175233

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:University of Nevada Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Conservation Earth Sciences Ecotourism Environment Geology History History & Criticism Lakes & Ponds Nature Nature & Ecology Science & Math Specialty Travel State & Local Travel Writing

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