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	Burntwater
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The Burntwater of Scott Thybony's title is a place you will not find on any map: a tiny point on the vast Colorado Plateau, its name commemorates a Navajo shepherd's once having melted ice by building a circle of fire. Traveling through this magical land, Thybony takes us along on a quest to understand the traditional Navajo blessing Hozho naninaadoo, "Go in beauty." This is, he writes, "not the beauty of surfaces alone, but an indwelling beauty that enfolds and completes, a life-restoring beauty." Full of anthropology, geology, and history, Thybony's book wanders into haunted side-canyons and over tall mountains. His love of this austere land is evident at every turn, and his essays deepen our understanding of the beauty that lies all around us.