Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojaveits myths and legends outcasts and oddballs flora fauna and UFOsbecomes the definitive oracular book of the desert For the past five years Desert Oracle has 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 timeand including both classic and new never-before-seen revelationsDesert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree California Desert Oracle is 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. Desert Oracle 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. From 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 Laynes Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single essential volume.