| Title:
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THE WHITE HEART OF MOJAVE
AN ADVENTURE WITH THE OUTDOORS OF THE DESERT |
| By: |
Edna Brush Perkins, Peter Wild (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0801865050 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780801865053 |
| Publisher: |
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 February, 2001 |
| Series: |
American Land Classics |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Suffragette Edna Brush Perkins set out in 1920 with her friend, Charlotte Hannahs Jordan, to journey into the Mojave, both seeking to escape civilization and their struggle to secure voting rights. This is Perkins' account of the journey, describing the landscape and the people she encountered. |
| Synopsis: |
An ardent early suffragette, Edna Brush Perkins set out in 1920 with her friend, Charlotte Hannahs Jordan, to journey into the Mojave, both women seeking to escape civilization and their struggle to secure voting rights for women. The Mojave at that time was considered to be a desolate, inaccessible region - part of the fading American frontier. Originally published in 1922, this is Perkins' account of this journey. Her evocative writing describes the landscape and the people she encounters. As editor Peter Wild writes, this is ultimately the story of two wealthy women who enter Death Valley "as a sort of middle-aged lark" and "emerge from the trip profoundly changed". |
| Illustrations: |
14 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |