Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Paperback)

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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Paperback)

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In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.

As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge,  is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise–an animal that can “teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience” as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land–an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.


Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fifteen books, including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and PlaceFinding Beauty in a Broken WorldWhen Women Were Birds, and, most recently, The Hour of Land. Her work has been widely anthologized around the world. She lives in Castle Valley, Utah, with her husband, Brooke Williams.
Product Details ISBN: 9780375725180
ISBN-10: 0375725180
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: October 8th, 2002
Pages: 288
Language: English
Series: Vintage
“Lush elegies to the wilderness. . . . Earthy, spiritual, evocative.” –The Boston Globe

“Erotic, scientific, literary. . . . Her intimacy with this landscape is complex and passionate.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Her finest writing . . . Use[s] pure language in the face of laws that need to be changed and lawmakers and citizens who need to understand that there is another way to see.” –Portland Oregonian

“Williams is one of the world’s most poetic and daring nature writers.” –Ruminator Review