The Desert
Further Studies in Natural Appearances
With frontispiece. 12mo, $1.25 net
“The reader who once submits to its spell will hardly lay it aside until the last page is turned.”—The Spectator (London).
“This charming volume comes as strong wine indeed after the tepid rose-water of books dealing with snails and daffodils in suburban gardens. Mr. Van Dyke unquestionably knows his desert; he has the true wanderer’s eye for its essential fascination.”—The Athenæum (London).
“No virgin rush of young impressions, but an adult mingling of vision and criticism in a style that engages without startling the attention.”—London Academy.
“Strange and curious reading, this book of the desert, and has all the fascination of things unaccustomed.”—New York Tribune.
“The writer’s personality is carefully subordinated, but one cannot help feeling it strongly; that of a man more sensitive to color than to form, enthusiastic, but with a stern hand on his own pulse.”—Atlantic Monthly.