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""A book to lay up for gloomy afternoons or rainy evenings."" --The Atlantic Monthly. Here are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the ""old ones"" of the southwestern desert, of the great explorers, eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. ""There's no end to the list, of course,"" Connell says, ""because gradually it descends from such legendary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard.""

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Evan S. Connell was the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya, Deus Lo Volt!, Mrs. Bridge, and Son of the Morning Star. He received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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