White Heat of Mojave.
Perkins, Edna Brush. The White Heart of Mojave: An Adventure With the Outdoors of the Desert. New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922).
8vo.; photographic frontispiece; blue cloth; contemporary ownership signature; multicolored pictorial dust-jacket lightly used, lightly chipped at edges.
First edition of the record of the author’s extended expedition, unaccompanied except by a female friend, into the Mojave Desert; illustrated with photographs of the stunning and forbidding Californian landscape. A handsome example of the early 20th-century American travelogue, a non-fiction form which was often utilized by proto-feminist “pioneering” American women writers. According to the dust-jacket,
[a]...tale of the adventure and experiences of two women, courageous and staunch enough to penetrate this country in their search for ‘the terrible fascination’ of the Mojave Desert they had heard so much about....It is almost unbelievable that two highly cultured women could possess the courage to go forth, deliberately, and spend so much time in this extraordinary and cruel waste, where even the huskiest of men hesitate to go…
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