White Heart of Mojave, The

By Perkins, Edna Brush

Book Id: WPLBN0002954796
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File Size: 136.44 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	White Heart of Mojave, The
Author:	Perkins, Edna Brush
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Memoirs, Nature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, White Heart of Mojave, The
Historic Publication Date:	1922
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Brush Perkins, B. E. (1922). White Heart of Mojave, The. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
The White Heart of the Mojave recounts a 1920's adventure in the wind and sun and big spaces of Death Valley by two independent minded women, Edna Brush Perkins and Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. Both women were early feminists, Edna as chairwoman of the greater Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party (1916-18). At the end of the Great War, the two friends wanted nothing more than to escape to the solitariness of some wild and lonely place far from city halls, smokestacks, national organizations, and streets of little houses all alike. Their vacation started as a long motor drive through the backwoods of California (Charlotte's husband, Ned, owned the Jordan Motor Car Company). It ended with a month long trek through Death Valley in an old milk wagon drawn by a horse and a mule. Edna's descriptions of the desert are superb and from the heart--the dunes were very beautiful, with knife-edged tops ridged in pure, clean lines from which fringes of fine sand blew up like the wind tossed manes of white horses. This is a great listen for anyone who likes first-hand accounts of adventure in the Great Outdoors. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Memoirs, Nature, Travel