Frank Waters
22) Leon Gaspard
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114 pages : illustrations (part color) portrait ; 32 cm
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English
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xviii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In the late 1960s, while heading up the Western operations for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Alan Kishbaugh met the distinguished writer Frank Waters in Taos, New Mexico. From 1968 until Waters's death almost thirty years later, the two wrote each other hundreds of letters. This annotated collection of their correspondence reveals Waters's profound engagement with the land and cultures of the Southwest. A lively introduction to the breadth of Waters's...
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xxxi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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W. Y. Evans-Wentz, great Buddhist scholar and translator of such now familiar works as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, spent his final years in California. There, in the shadow of Cuchama, on of the Earth's holiest mountains, he began to explore the astonishing parallels between the spiritual teaching of America's native peoples and that of the deeply mystical Hindus and Tibetans. CUCHAMA AND SACRED MOUNTAINS,...
26) Eternal desert
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143 pages : color illustrations, color maps. ; 32 cm
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English