Jason de León, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015)
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949)
Michael F. Logan, The Lessening Stream: An Environmental History of the Santa Cruz River (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002)
———, Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006)
Barry Lopez, Desert Notes (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1976)
David E. Lorey, The U.S.–Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999)
Carl Lumholtz, New Trails in Mexico: An Account of One Year’s Exploration in North-western Sonora, Mexico, and South-Western Arizona, 1909–1910 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912)
Gary MacEoin (ed.), Sanctuary: A Resource Guide for Understanding and Participating in the Central American Refugee Struggle (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985)
William E. Martin et al., Saving Water in a Desert City (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1984)
Gregory McNamee, Blue Mountains Far Away: Journeys into the American Wilderness (New York: The Lyons Press, 2000)
John McPhee, Basin and Range (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981)
Joseph Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper (London: Routledge, 2002)
———, Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond (London: Routledge, 2010)
Bruce M. Pavlik, The California Deserts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008)
Steven J. Philips and Patricia Wentworth Comus (eds.), A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert (Tucson: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, 2000)
John Wesley Powell, Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, 1878)
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert (London: Pimlico, 2001)
Amanda Rose, Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
Rachel St. John, Line in the Sand (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014)
Aron Spilken, Escape! (New York: Signet, 1983)
6 MATTER OUT OF PLACE: THE BLACK ROCK DESERT, USA
Alonzo Delano, Life On the Plains and Among the Diggings (New York: Miller, Orton & Co, 1857)
Brian Doherty, This is Burning Man (New York: Little, Brown, 2004)
William L. Fox, photographs by Mark Klett, The Black Rock Desert (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002)
———, Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002)
John Charles Frémont, Narrative of the Exploring Expedition To the Rocky Mountains (New York: Appleton, 1846)
Peter Goin, Black Rock (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005)
Rose Houk, Sonoran Desert (Tucson: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 2000)
Samantha Krukowski (ed.), Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man (London: Black Dog, 2014)
Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers (Norfolk: James Loughlin, 1960)
Allan Nevins, Frémont, Pathmarker of the West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992)
Daniel Pinchbeck, Breaking Open the Head: A Chemical Adventure (London: Flamingo, 2004)
Scott Slovic (ed.), Getting Over the Colour Green (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001)
David W. Teague, The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997)
David W. Teague and Peter Wild (eds.), The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke: Selected Letters (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997)
Barbara Traub, Desert to Dream (San Francisco: Immedium, 2011)
Stephen Trimble, The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (Reno, Nev.: University of Nevada Press, 1989)
John C. Van Dyke, The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993)
———, The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901). Reprinted with an introduction by Peter Wild (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Bert Webber, Over the Applegate Trail to Oregon in 1846 (Medford: Webb Research Group, 1996)
Sessions S. Wheeler, The Black Rock Desert (Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, 1978)
7 THE INNER MOUNTAIN: THE EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT
Sahar Abdel-Hakim and Deborah Manley (eds.), Travelling Through the Deserts of Egypt: From 450 BC to the Twentieth Century (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2009)
St. Antony, trans. Derwas J. Chitty, The Letters of St. Antony the Great (Oxford: SLG Press, 1975)
St. Athanasius, trans. Edward Stephens, The Life of St. Antony (London: The Author, 1697)
———, trans. Robert C. Gregg, The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (New York: Paulist Press, 1980).
———, trans. E. A. Wallis, The Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1907)
M. R. Balme (ed.), Martian Geomorphology (London: Geological Society, 2011)
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David Brakke, Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
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Christian Cannuyer, Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001)
Douglas E. Christie, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
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James Cowan, Desert Father: A Journey in the Wilderness with Saint Antony (Boston: New Seed Books, 2006)
Robert Curzon, Visits to Monasteries in the Levant (London: George Newnes, 1897)
William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain (London: Flamingo, 1998)
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Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Percival Lowell, Mars and Its Canals (New York: Macmillan, 1906)
Sara Maitland, A Bo
ok of Silence (London: Granta, 2008)
Michael W. McClellan, Monasticism in Egypt (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998)
Otto F. A. Meinardus, Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003)
H. V. Morton, Through Lands of the Bible (London: Methuen & Co, 1938)
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Samuel Rubenson, The Letters of St. Antony: Origenist Theology, Monastic Tradition and the Making of a Saint (Lund: Lund University Press, 1990)
Evelyn Dorothea Russell, Medieval Cairo and the Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962)
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Leon Arthur Tregenza, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt (London: Oxford University Press, 1955)
Helen Waddell, The Desert Fathers (London: Constable, 1936)
Johann Michael Wansleben, Englished by M. D., The Present State of Egypt; Or, A New Relation of a Late Voyage into That Kingdom, Performed in the Years 1672, and 1673, Wherein You Have an Exact and True Account of Many Rare and Wonderful Particulars of That Ancient Kingdom (London: John Starkey, 1678)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
WILLIAM ATKINS is a former editorial director of Pan Macmillan U.K. He is the author of The Moor, a book about England’s fenlands. When not trekking across desert wastes on far-flung continents, he lives in London.
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