Tales from the Journey of the Dead: Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert

by Alan Boye

One hundred miles south of Albuquerque, two parallel chains of mountains isolate a 120-mile jumble of black rock, dry lake beds, flesh-colored sand, and desolation. This is the "Jornada del Muerto," the Journey of the Dead.So named because of a particular death centuries ago, this desert has witnessed many tales of loss and destruction. Alan Boye takes us on a trek through the beauty and violence of this forbidding land. Traveling the wasteland by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803213581
• ISBN13: 9780803213586
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.6"