Download or read book Desert Notes written by Barry Holstun Lopez and published by Quill. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, "River Notes and "Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes . . . and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez allows us to share moments of intense personal experience as man tries to come to terms with the Earth's landscape, and with his own existence.