The White Heart of Mojave: an Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert

A long-out-of-print book, it chronicles the journey Edna Brush Perkins took across Death Valley with her friend Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. These two women of privilege from Cleveland went to California on a vacation with no particular destination in mind. They saw the Mojave Desert from the train and were hooked. Edna Brush Perkins, 1922, reprinted 2012, 229 pages, softcover