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Believing In Place: A Spiritual Geography Of The Great Basin
The austere landscape of the Great Basin has inspired diverse responses from the people who have moved through or settled in it. Author Richard V. Francaviglia is interested in the connection between environment and spirituality in the Great Basin, for here, he says, "faith and landscape conspire to resurrect old myths and create new ones." As a geographer, Franc...more
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published
August 1st 2003
by University of Nevada Press
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What a cool book. The author is an academic but also a Great Basin solitude freak. He drives around the back of behind in Nevada thinking about history and religion and grooving on speed and silence. Amen brother!
The author looks at how Mormons, Native Americans and miners each perceive the Great Basin landscape differently.
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