Edna Brush Perkins 
The White Heart of Mojave [EPUB ebook] 
An Adventure With the Outdoors of the Desert

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Edna Brush Perkins visited Death Valley with her good friend and fellow suffragette Charlotte Jordan chronicling their beautiful, sometimes harrowing travels in The White Heart of Mojave, which was published in 1922. With lively wit, humor, intelligence, and poetic flair, Perkins brings their journey-and a world that has vastly changed-vividly to life. 

On a train to California, where the car they intend to use on their still-unplanned road trip holiday awaits, Perkins and Jordan decide to explore Death Valley. They are urged by hotel owners, friends, and even the Automobile Club not to undertake what was then was a dangerous venture into largely uninhabited and inhospitable terrain. They press on.

Finally they find a champion to act as guide and official ‘Worrier’ in the person of Julius Meyer. After loading an old wagon in Beatty, Nevada, with more supplies than seems reasonable at the time they hitch up their ‘desert-proof’ steeds Bill and Molly and venture into Death Valley.

The travelers survive the heat and dearth of water, sandstorms, snow, icy mountains, and exhaustion, and emerge with a sense of awe for the region that readers of Perkins’ classic travelogue can only come to share.

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Contents

I The Feel of the Outdoors

II How We Found Mojave

III The White Heart

IV The Outfit

V Entering Death Valley

VI The Strangest Farm in the World

VII The Burning Sands

VIII The Dry Camp

IX The Mountain Spring

X The High White Peaks

XI Snowstorm and Sandstorm

XII The End of the Adventure

Appendix

About the Author

Death Valley Today: A Photo Gallery

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Edna Brush Perkins (1880-1930) was an American social reformer, writer, poet, and painter. She is most remembered today for her travel books, The White Heart of Mojave (1922) and A Red Carpet on the Sahara (1925).

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Мова Англійська ● Формат EPUB ● Сторінки 136 ● ISBN 9781954525382 ● Розмір файлу 3.4 MB ● Видавець Warbler Press ● Опубліковано 2021 ● Видання 1 ● Завантажувані 24 місяців ● Валюта EUR ● Посвідчення особи 7877413 ● Захист від копіювання Adobe DRM
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