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Where the Rain Children Sleep: A Sacred Geography of the Colorado Plateau Paperback - 2010

by Michael Engelhard; Preface by Michael Engelhard


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Inspired by a year of hiking 120 desert canyons, Where the Rain Children Sleep is nature writing in the best tradition of Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, and Terry Tempest Williams. Much more than one man's memoir of his time in these canyons, this eclectic collection is well informed, critical, and in-depth, with flashes of humor and whimsy thrown in. The vivid thread connecting these essays is the Navajo concept of a "sacred geography."
Michael Engelhard has traveled and explored the Southwest for close to twenty years. His heartfelt rendering of this region straddles the fences normally separating natural history, ethnography, personal reflection, and travel narrative. These essays spring from a growing concern that the song of the land, the stories of these places, and the voices of their non-human and indigenous inhabitants might not be heard against the din of bulldozers, powerboats, turbines, and four-wheelers.
Engelhard's passion and keen eye offer finely tuned observations, and his essays are small gestures of gratitude, of remembering what has been given to him.

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  • Title Where the Rain Children Sleep: A Sacred Geography of the Colorado Plateau
  • Author Michael Engelhard; Preface by Michael Engelhard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln and London
  • Date 2010-05-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780803229907 / 0803229909
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.5 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Arizona
    • Geographic Orientation: Utah
  • Library of Congress subjects Natural history - Colorado Plateau, Colorado Plateau - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051636
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508.791

About the author

Michael Engelhard is an avid outdoorsman and essayist with a particular interest in cultural ecology and the symbolic dimension of landscapes. He is the author of Redrock Almanac: Canyon Country Vignettes and the editor of Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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