Desert Reader A Literary Companion

First published in 1995 as 'The Sierra Club Desert Reader', this wide-ranging anthology is now published only by the University of New Mexico Press. Represented in this global selection are poets from ancient China (translated by Ezra Pound), Egyptian inscriptions, the logs of Captain Cook, and the chilling fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the lore of native peoples from around the world. Also included are writings from many genres by, among others, Herodotus, Marco Polo, Shelley, Twain, Saint-Exupéry, T E Lawrence, Chatwin, and Borges.McNamee, Gregory is the author of 'Desert Reader A Literary Companion' with ISBN 9780826329844 and ISBN 0826329845.