Boston: Little Brown, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts a journey of over 25,000 miles through American deserts from the Black Rock Desert of Oregon to the Mexican border, with discussion about things like plate tectonics, botany and the animals that live in the deserts, but especially about the people she encounters - Navaho weavers, Hopi silversmiths, children on a reservation, an old prospector and gold miner, a cattleman and a missionary and more. Illustrated with drawings. xvi, 262 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-316482986.