Slide 7 : Signal: Notes on the Desert, by Gregory McNamee and Stephen Strom

Signal: Notes on the Desert

Prose by Gregory McNamee
Photos by Stephen Strom

Deserts are not in fact deserts at all—from the Latin desertus, a desolation, a place devoid of people, of life, abandoned by all but scorpions and ghosts. What there is, is: rock, sand, animal and plant communities well adapted to local conditions, as the expression has it. And what there is not—well, there is not, and in great abundance. That lack lies at the heart of the word Sahara, which, in Arabic, means “the brown void.”

Dry riverbed and mudhills, Big Bend National Park, near Terlingua, Texas

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