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Open midnight : where ancestors and wilderness meet
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"Two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Williams's year alone, ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 traveled with ...
"Two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Williams's year alone, ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 traveled with a group of Mormons from England to the American West; intertwines ancestry, identity, philosophy, evolution, and our dependence on wilderness"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Brooke Williams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- San Antonio : Trinity University Press, 2017
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781595348036, 1595348034, 9781595348043
- OCLC
- ocn959034283
- Prologue: San Rafael River, Utah -- Castle Valley, Utah -- Severn River, Shrewsbury, England -- Solitude Wash, Book Cliffs, Utah -- Aboard the Cynosure, Atlantic Ocean -- Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert, Utah -- Big Draw, Canyonlands National Park, Utah -- Platte River, Somewhere in Middle America -- Musée d'Orsay, Paris -- Recapture Creek, Utah -- Dead Horse Point, Utah -- Three Crossings, Wyoming -- Epilogue: Colorado River, Dream Water
Subjects
- Williams, Brooke (Conservationist) -- Travel -- Utah.
- Williams, Brooke (Conservationist) -- Family.
- Williams, William, 1808-1863 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
- Latter Day Saint pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
- Utah -- Description and travel.
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
- Wilderness areas -- Utah.
- Wilderness areas -- West (U.S.).
- Wilderness areas -- Philosophy.
- Intergenerational relations -- Philosophy.