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Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN C.VAN DYKE
SELECTED LETTERS
Format: Hardback

List price: £36.50


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ISBN 10: 0874172942
ISBN 13: 9780874172942
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS
Pub. date: 31 May, 1997
Pages: 200
Description: In this collection of letters, the authors critically examine the ecological principles and reality of the "desert saint" Van Dyke. The letters depict a privileged, patrician, and pampered member of the upper class, who saw most of the deserts from plush railroad cars and hotel rooms.
Synopsis: The author of The Desert, the book that made the American landscape accessible to the mainstream mind, was much less like his fellow environmental prophets John Muir and Henry David Thoreau than he would have had us believe. Van Dyke claimed to have wandered "alone on horseback for thousands of miles through the American Southwest and northern Mexico," as readers of The Desert-now in the millions since the book was published in 1901-were told. He did not. In The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke, Teague and Wild unmask the desert saint with Van Dyke's own recently discovered letters. These letters depict a privileged, patrician, and pampered member of the upper-class. His incriminating correspondence reveals that he saw most of the desert from plush railroad cars and grand hotel rooms. In the introduction, the editors clear up many misconceptions scholars currently hold about Van Dyke's ecological principles, about his outdoorsmanship, and about his trip through the desert itself. As the centennial of the publication of The Desert approaches, this lively collection of letters helps set the record straight. The John C.Van Dyke unveiled in The Secret Life is a more varied character than we had supposed-still worthy of much admiration for his remarkable accomplishments, but still mysterious, and not the man we thought him to be.
Illustrations: 15 b&w photographs
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Nevada Press
Returns: Returnable
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