Savage dreams : a journey into the hidden wars of the American West

Savage dreams A journey into the hidden wars of the American West

Rebecca Solnit

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Subjects
Landscapes > California > History.
Landscapes > Nevada > History.
Nuclear weapons > Testing > Environmental aspects > Nevada.
Indians of North America > Wars > West (U.S.)
California > Description and travel.
Nevada > Description and travel.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Nevada Test Site (Nev.)
Published
Berkeley, California : University of California Press [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Rebecca Solnit (author)
Edition
Twentieth anniversary edition with a new preface
Item Description
Originally published: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1994.
Physical Description
xxix, 408 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780520282285
  • Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dust, or Erasing the Future: The Nevada Test Site
  • From Hell to Breakfast
  • Like Moths to a Candle
  • April Fool's Day
  • Trees
  • Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes
  • Golden Hours and Iron County
  • Ruby Valley and the Ranch
  • The War
  • Keeping Pace with the Tortoise
  • Water, or Forgetting the Past: Yosemite National Park
  • The Rainbow
  • Spectators
  • Framing the View
  • Vanishing (Remaining)
  • Fire in the Garden
  • The Name of the Snake
  • Up the River of Mercy
  • Savage's Grave
  • Full Circle
  • Afterword
  • Sources
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Since 1951, the U.S. has set off more than 900 nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site, and recently Yucca Mountain in the state was chosen as a major radioactive waste dump. According to Solnit, an art historian, environmentalist and antinuclear activist, the federal government is hell-bent on rendering public and Shoshone lands ``useless for everyone for all time.'' She explores two federally managed landscapes: the Nevada Test Site, which she characterizes as Armageddon, and California's Yosemite National Park, which she links to Eden. She depicts the latter in its change from native stronghold to war zone during the 19th-century annihilation of Indians to today's tourist attraction. Flinging her net wide, Solnit evokes powerful images of destruction and conquest as she explores governmental abuses in the region. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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