Talking to the Ground

In 1992 Doug Preston and his family rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of the Navajo deity Naayee neizghani, the Slayer of Alien Gods, on his quest to restore beauty and balance to the Earth. More than a travelogue, Preston's account of the journey is a tale of two cultures meeting in a sacred land.

About the author

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Preston, Preston Douglas
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2019
• EAN: 9781982112196
• ISBN: 978-1-982112-19-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, TRAVEL / United States / General, TRAVEL / United States / West / General, Travel & holiday, Travel writing, Indigenous Peoples, Local History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Travel and holiday, Relating to Native American people, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous