Secrets of California Deserts: Mojave, Colorado, Great Basin with the cultural expert's eye

Secrets of California Deserts: Mojave, Colorado, Great Basin with the cultural expert's eye

by Katarzyna Nowocin-kowalczyk
Secrets of California Deserts: Mojave, Colorado, Great Basin with the cultural expert's eye

Secrets of California Deserts: Mojave, Colorado, Great Basin with the cultural expert's eye

by Katarzyna Nowocin-kowalczyk
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Overview

Secrets of California Deserts is a collection of interesting, colorful, and engaging stories related to the place we call the Old West. There are Indian legends, stories of desert cities, places, people.

Do you know why the Death Valley is called the Death Valley? Who was the Queen of Death Valley and is there an underground city there? What is Salvation Mountain? How was the Salton Sea formed? Who lives in the desert and why is the desert tree called the Joshua tree? Who were the indigenous inhabitants of the California deserts and what happened during the California Gold Rush? These are just a few of Catherine's many interesting desert stories about how the Wild West was conquered to be found in this book.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798990169029
Publisher: Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk
Publication date: 02/23/2024
Pages: 170
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk (Catherine) is a cultural expert, cultural anthropologist, and communication specialist. She graduated with honors from the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Faculty of Cultural Studies. Catherine is also a poet, writer, essayist, and art critic. Her publications are very popular among readers. She is known for her insightful observations of human nature and the surrounding world. She describes all this in her characteristic way, which could be called “a story of a soul about a soul.” As she says about herself: “Stories are everywhere and in everything. And I try to hear them, find them, and tell them in my own way.”
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