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Tag Archives: pablo valencia

Thank God there are still some readers out there

February 27, 2012 Alex ShoumatoffBlog1 Comment0

I received this email from Graeme Wood

 

Mr. Shoumatoff,

I read Legends of the American Desert a few years ago and liked it very much.  One anecdote stuck in my memory, the one on page 66 about Pablo Valencia’s near-death-by-thirst.  But I read the source essay by Wm. J. McGee, “Desert Thirst as Disease,” and found that one of the …Read More

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