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Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
Laurance Linford
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Description for Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
Paperback. Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman s characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a particular location, the Navajo name and history, and a description of the location s significance in various Hillerman novels." Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: GB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Tony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In Tony Hillerman's Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman's characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a particular location, the Navajo name and history, and a description of the location's significance in various Hillerman novels. An understanding of the Navajo names and their relations to the landscape will lend a new dimension to the characters and events Tony Hillerman created. This expanded third edition is updated to include all 72 ... Read more
Tony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In Tony Hillerman's Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman's characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a particular location, the Navajo name and history, and a description of the location's significance in various Hillerman novels. An understanding of the Navajo names and their relations to the landscape will lend a new dimension to the characters and events Tony Hillerman created. This expanded third edition is updated to include all 72 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811374
SKU
V9781607811374
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Laurance Linford
Laurance D. Linford was trained as an archaeologist. Formerly executive director of the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association in Gallup, New Mexico, he is now an administrator for the Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools. Linford is also the author of Navajo Places: History, Legend, Landscape (University of Utah Press, 2000).
Reviews for Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
“An invaluable guide. This book belongs in the car of any traveler passing through this land.”—New Mexico Magazine "An entertaining place-name guide to the traditional homelands of the Navajo people."—The Indian Trader