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The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country�s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America�s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams writes lyrically about the desert�s power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise�an animal that can �teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience� as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land�an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one. �Lush elegies to the wilderness. . . . Earthy, spiritual, evocative.� �The Boston Globe �Erotic, scientific, literary. . . . Her intimacy with this landscape is complex and passionate.� �Los Angeles Times Book Review �Her finest writing . . . Use[s] pure language in the face of laws that need to be changed and lawmakers and citizens who need to understand that there is another way to see.� �Portland Oregonian From the Trade Paperback edition.