About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Amargosa Desert, Black Rock Desert, Beatty, Nevada, Burning Man, Rhyolite, Nevada, Mojave Desert, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, Amargosa River, Devil's Hole pupfish, Death Valley Junction, California, Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, Smoke Creek Desert, Yucca Mountain, Black Rock Desert Wilderness, Great Basin Desert, ThrustSSC, Peter Lassen, Applegate Trail, Nevada State Route 373, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Goldwell Open Air Museum, Grindelia fraxino-pratensis, Bare Mountain Range, Shoshone pupfish, Nitrophila mohavensis, Bullfrog, Nevada, Amargosa Pupfish Station, Funeral Mountains, Nevada State Route 374, Owyhee Desert, Bullfrog Hills, Devils Hole, Chloride City, California, Tecopa pupfish, Last Chance Range, Johnnie Range, Amargosa Toad, Devils Hole Hills, Black Rock Desert Gunnery Range, Amargosa Range, Thrust2, Furnace Creek Fault Zone, Oasis Valley, Tule Desert, Yp Desert, Bradford Siding, California, Lee, California, Crater Flat, Beckwith Expedition, Delamar Flat, Sulphur, Nevada. Excerpt: Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before, and ends on the day of the American Labor Day holiday. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. Burning Man is organized by Black Rock City, LLC. In 2010, 51,454 people participated in Burning Man. The annual event now known as Burning Man began as a bonfire ritual on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a 9-foot (2.7-meter) wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog. Harvey has described his inspiration for bur...
