| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xxii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

Two major highways cross Nevada, U.S. 50 and Interstate 80. These are lonely roads that present drivers with mile upon mile of sagebrush and a basin and range topography that can induce hypnosis, boredom, and for Richard Francaviglia, wonder. Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin recounts Francaviglia's personal journey, or rather, a number of journeys, through what has become for him a place infused with power, beauty, and, most importantly, a spiritual life. Rather than define the Great Basin by traditional geographic boundaries (its internal drainage, or its distinctive vegetation), Francaviglia chooses to examine the region's "spiritual geography," which is bound up in a compendium of stories he has collected over decades of association with the region's deserts, mountains, lakes and peoples. Believing in Place is more than an academic exercise in folklore, however; it represents Francaviglia's quest for spiritual understanding.

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