In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner
- ISBN-10
- 0826319785
- ISBN-13
- 9780826319784
- Category
- Los Alamos Region (N.M.)
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Author
- Edith Warner
Description
To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.
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