ENCHANTED SAND: A New Mexican Pilgrimage [SOLD]

ENCHANTED SAND: A New Mexican Pilgrimage By D. J. Hall

Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, MCMXXXIII

First Edition, 1933, hardback, gold-color fabric board covers with brown title band

275 numbered pages, 20 illustrations, two endpaper maps

Condition:  Text pages in very good condition, cover slightly soiled, end pages browning slightly and torn at spine on inner back page.

INTRODUCTION

“When this book first appeared in England, several of my friends remarked that certain comments in it gave the impression that I did not like Americans.  This set me wondering how I could have given an impression so far from the truth.  The only cause I can find is that I have commented unfavorably on the ‘white’ attitude to the Indians.  But such comments are meant to be taken in the broadest sense; rather on the multiple futilities of intensive civilization when placed side by side with the beauty of primitive simplicity.  That I have particularized the Indians is due to my having lived with them and loved them, and therefore learned something of the value of simplicity; a quality which is no more lacking in America than it is in any other country where this business of living has become so absurdly complicated.

“Anyway, criticism does not imply lack of affection.  But too much stuff calculated to irritate has been ignorantly written by Englishmen and Americans about each other’s country, when what is needed is a fuller appreciation of each other’s qualities and difficulties.   And I wish only to express my admiration and affection for the country in which I spent the most glorious year of my life and left a large part of my heart behind me.”                                                                        

                                                                                                                                       D. J. Hall. Slaugham. Sussex

CONTENTS

PART ONE—RANCHO MANZANA

I.                 Nightmare

II.               Awakening

III.              Juan and His Pegasus

IV.              Very Old Dirt

V.               “Mucho Trabajo, Poco Dinero”

VI.              Bedevilment

VII.            Vice in Paradise

VIII.          The Feast of San Diego

PART TWO—KA’PO

IX.              Indian Country

X.                Cliff-Dwellings

XI.              The Birth of the Sun

XII.            The General and the Barbarians

XIII.           Man into Dog

XIV.           Poor Nana’tséré!

XV.            Mexican Calvary

XVI.           Only the Devil Could

XVII.         Contentment—and a Murder

XVIII.       Strange Logic

XIX.           Holy of Holies

XX.             “Sengetecho-Gkemo”

PART THREE—THE DESERT

XXI.           City in the Sky

XXII.         Hansel and Gretel

XXIII.        In the House Made of Dawn

XXIV.        Conquistador

XXV.         Enchanted Sand

XXVI.        The Valley of the Monuments

XXVII.      Love Humanity!

XXVIII.    Against the Sun