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Tales from the journey of the dead : ten thousand years on an American desert by Alan Boye is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><p>one Hundred Miles South Of Albuquerque, Two Parallel Chains Of Mountains Isolate A 120-mile Jumble Of Black Rock, Dry Lake Beds, Flesh-colored Sand, And Desolation. This Is The <i>jornada Del Muerto</i>, The Journey Of The Dead. <p>so Named Because Of A Particular Death Centuries Ago, This Desert Has Witnessed Many Tales Of Loss And Destruction. Alan Boye Takes Us On A Trek Through The Beauty And Violence Of This Forbidding Land. Traveling The Wasteland By Foot, Boye Visits Battle Sites From The Mexican-american War, To The Civil War, From The Lonely Canyon Where The Apaches Fought To Keep Their Homeland, To The Isolated Site Of The World’s First Atomic Explosion. In The Sand And Dust And The Ruins Of War, Boye Discovers Stories Of Sadistic Killers, Directionless Rebels, And Gun-toting Gauchos—but Also Tales Of Poets And Dreamers, Of Ordinary Men And Women Who Lived Their Lives And Continue To Live Under This Wide And Ruthless Desert Sky. He Introduces Us To Many Travelers Who Have Tested The Desert: Mysterious Ancient People Who Built Cliff-top Fortresses, Spanish Conquistadors, Mexican Farmers, Old Time Cowboys Yodeling Classical Poetry To Their Cattle, And M
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alan Boye
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803258983
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Travel, Biography
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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