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Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River
by Meloy, Ellen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805024972
- ISBN 13
- 9780805024975
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. 256pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 light gray cloth with light pink paper over boards. Spine ever so slightly rolled. There is a small black smudge on the front board. In a very attractive dust jacket. Meloy wrote three excellent books of natural history and contributed numerous pieces to National Public Radio before her untimely death in 2004.
"Desolation Canyon. Awestruck first explorers described it as 'empty,' 'tortuous,' and 'worthless.' But Ellen Meloy, lured by an obsession to experience weather and an intense love of Place, introduces us to a canyon that abounds with ghosts, legends, and life. In Raven's Exile she chronicles a back-country ranger season on the Green River in Utah's red-rock canyon country. Culled from mud-spattered, salsa-stained notebooks that went down nearly every stretch of Southwestern whitewater, her words treat us to the strange anomaly of this desert river and to her extraordinary home in Desolation.
"Desolation Canyon. Awestruck first explorers described it as 'empty,' 'tortuous,' and 'worthless.' But Ellen Meloy, lured by an obsession to experience weather and an intense love of Place, introduces us to a canyon that abounds with ghosts, legends, and life. In Raven's Exile she chronicles a back-country ranger season on the Green River in Utah's red-rock canyon country. Culled from mud-spattered, salsa-stained notebooks that went down nearly every stretch of Southwestern whitewater, her words treat us to the strange anomaly of this desert river and to her extraordinary home in Desolation.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63165
- Title
- Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River
- Author
- Meloy, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805024972
- ISBN 13
- 9780805024975
- Publisher
- Henry Holt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Ellen Meloy; first edition; Green River; natural history; western americana
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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