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Nevada's Enigmatic Black Rock Country, Despite Its Apparent Silence And Isolation, Is Actually An Area Where Natural Forces Are Ceaselessly Restless And Life In Many Forms Has Endured For Millennia. Its Haunting Landscape Has Been The Focus Of Study And Contemplation By Scientists, Explorers, Outdoors Aficionados, And Artists. In Black Rock, Photographer Peter Goin And Geographer Paul F. Starrs Explore This Place From The Viewpoints Of Their Respective Disciplines. The Black Rock, A Desert Realm Almost The Size Of Delaware But Scarcely A Hundred Miles North Of Reno, Embraces Mile-high Vertical Mountains And One Of The Earth's Flattest, Most Barren Salt Pans; Boiling Hot Springs And Freezing Winter Cold; Plants That Have Evolved To Survive The Severest Drought And Lush Pockets Of Rich Grasses. Its Bewildering Environments Startle Our Senses With A Raw Physical Intensity That Comes Through In Goin's Photographs And Starrs's Informed Text. We Observe The Region From Numerous Perspectives - The Black Rock At Ground Level, From The Skies Above, In The Geology Below; Witness The Shaping Roles Of Water, Wind, And Geothermal Action In Shaping It; And View The Effects Of Human Hands, From A

Author

Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs

Publisher

University of Nevada Press ; Eurospan [distributor

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874175912

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities

Rating

3.48 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14