The Telling Distance: Conversations With the American Desert

By Bruce Berger

Book Overview

This collection of 50 essays, winner of the 1990 Western States Book Award, tells of the people, mythsand legends of the American Southwest. An Edward Abbe y with the heart of a poet, Bruce Berger teaches armchair environmentalists and hard-core outdoorsmen alike to tread lightly in the wilderness, with new respect for the odd charm and immense fragility of the planet. "Mr. Berger brings the desert to life". --TheNew York Times Book Review. Line drawings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932576745
• ISBN13: 9780932576743
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Far Corner Books
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Tales of the Southwest

An excellent collection of short stories about the Southwest--its history, its fauna and flora, its people, and just a little about where it may be going if suburbia continues to encroach. At its best, Bruce's writing style verges on poetry, refining the imagery into a few well chosen lines that beg to be read and read again. The very short story about the Metaphysical Tent is one the best short pieces I have read.