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Talking to the Ground Reissue Edition
Contributor(s): Preston, Douglas (Author)
ISBN: 1982112190     ISBN-13: 9781982112196
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- Biography & Autobiography
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.55 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Geographic Orientation - Arizona
- Geographic Orientation - New Mexico
- Geographic Orientation - Utah
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author's adventurous journey on horseback through the Southwest in the heart of Navajo desert country.

In 1992 author Douglas Preston and his wife and daughter rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of a Navajo deity, the Slayer of Alien Gods, on his quest to restore beauty and balance to the Earth. More than a travelogue, Preston's account of their "one tough journey, luminously remembered" (Kirkus Reviews) is a tale of two cultures meeting in a sacred land and is "like traveling across unknown territory with Lewis and Clark to the Pacific" (Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee).

Contributor Bio(s): Preston, Douglas: - Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.