I first read this book for a non-fiction writing class. This is when I learnt about many of the plants and the animals in the desert and to know the name of everything.
"To name a thing is to give it a second creation, a creation by the viewer"
After a trip to Bisbee, I am reading this book again to savor the landscape through the author's eyes and to compare what I have seen.
It might take more courage 'to see the landscape properly (if) one must experience the temperature as well'.
June 1, 2011
Going back to Bisbee
Reading about 'alligator juniper' different from 'one-seed juniper' fills me with equal astonishment as with finding a broad-stumped eucalyptus in a park. The author's sense of history with place, things, events is persistent to the erstwhile with no traces in the present. Like when the author says that Sonoita started with a railroad but that does not exist anymore.
I have seen alternate old highways around AZ, but didnt know that one of the reasons for constructing new ones so as to overcome floodwaters.
The book is an exhaustive history of the land, people and the forts enroute Bisbee
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