{"product_id":"desert-oracle-volume-1-strange-true-tales-from-the-american-southwest","title":"Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs--becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past five years, \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ehas existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time--and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations--\u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ehas been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStraight out of Joshua Tree, California, \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003eis \"The Voice of the Desert\" a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1250800358\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250800350\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Layne, Ken\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Dec 2021)","offer_id":46081468661957,"sku":"9781250800350","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250800350.jpg?v=1776046353","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/desert-oracle-volume-1-strange-true-tales-from-the-american-southwest","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}