Journey Down A Rainbow
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What happens when two of Britain's sharpest minds — a celebrated novelist and a distinguished archaeologist — travel together through the ancient American Southwest and the glittering artifice of modern Texas? Journey Down a Rainbow chronicles a remarkable dual travelogue in which J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes each pen their own alternating accounts of a shared journey, weaving together contrasting perspectives on the pueblos of New Mexico and the neon-lit consumer culture of mid-20th-century America. The result is a book of striking contrasts: prehistoric civilisations set against the relentless march of modernity, silence against spectacle, the enduring against the ephemeral. Hawkes brings her archaeologist's eye to the ancient landscapes of the Southwest, unearthing in the Pueblo peoples a way of life rooted in the rhythms of the earth, while Priestley turns his satirist's wit on what he memorably coins Admass — the mass-advertising, mass-consumption society he finds embodied in the Texas of the 1950s. Together, their voices argue passionately for humanity's need to reconnect with something deeper and more permanent than the marketplace can offer. With frontispieces by Daniel Briffaud adding a visual dimension to the journey, this is a rare and thought-provoking collaboration that asks, with urgent clarity, what civilisation is truly for.
Author: J. B. Priestley & Jacquetta Hawkes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What happens when two of Britain's sharpest minds — a celebrated novelist and a distinguished archaeologist — travel together through the ancient American Southwest and the glittering artifice of modern Texas? Journey Down a Rainbow chronicles a remarkable dual travelogue in which J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes each pen their own alternating accounts of a shared journey, weaving together contrasting perspectives on the pueblos of New Mexico and the neon-lit consumer culture of mid-20th-century America. The result is a book of striking contrasts: prehistoric civilisations set against the relentless march of modernity, silence against spectacle, the enduring against the ephemeral. Hawkes brings her archaeologist's eye to the ancient landscapes of the Southwest, unearthing in the Pueblo peoples a way of life rooted in the rhythms of the earth, while Priestley turns his satirist's wit on what he memorably coins Admass — the mass-advertising, mass-consumption society he finds embodied in the Texas of the 1950s. Together, their voices argue passionately for humanity's need to reconnect with something deeper and more permanent than the marketplace can offer. With frontispieces by Daniel Briffaud adding a visual dimension to the journey, this is a rare and thought-provoking collaboration that asks, with urgent clarity, what civilisation is truly for.