Savage Pilgrims: On the Road to Santa Fe

by HenryShukman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.90

  Much of the American West still remains a clean canvas - a land uncharted, a place where you can live as you please. Even today, New Mexico has all the characteristics of the old frontier, a place where many go to escape the confinements of the cities, to uncover the spirit of the desert and the Indians, or to settle amid the hybrid Spanish-Indian culture. For Henry Shukman, for whom this land has always had a mythical status, New Mexico was the last known residence of his ex-girlfriend. This book charts the odyssey of a young man chasing his dreams, his ghost and his true self.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.28

  Abandoned by a girlfriend who eloped to New Mexico, and inspired by reading the works of D.H. Lawrence, Henry Shukman was determined that he would visit the state himself one day. It was to be some years before he realized his ambition, and when he finally did go he found a place very different to his expectations. Though it is changing fast, New Mexico still has some of the characteristics of the old frontier, attracting dreamers, visionaries and oddballs who have chosen to escape the confinements of the cities, to uncover the spirit of the desert and the Indians, or to settle into the hybrid culture. For Shukman, New Mexico was to prove a series of magical places and bizarre encounters. Chance meetings brought him into contact with - among others - a flying priest, amiable cowboys and lonesome cowgirls, pueblo-dwelling artists and a monster fish. This book is the story of a young man chasing his dreams and fleeing his demons.