One might not expect to find much in the middle of California's hot, dry deserts. But to the curious explorer, they're scattered with strange and extraordinary

Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace tu

Evoking the mystery and magic of southern California's desert, this collection of tales weaves fact and fancy into a tapestry of lost mines, Indian myths, histo