Arid Gallery

Terres Mauvaises, Utah, 1874. Creator: John Filmer

Terres Mauvaises, Utah, 1874. Badlands - dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been eroded by wind and water - in Utah, USA. The region is really, by Nature, an arid desert, made up of veritable "Terres Mauvaises", literally, bad lands'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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Punjab, c1930s

Punjab. The setting sun casts long shadows of the camels as the lurch down the track which winds among desolate hills and sandy wastes spread out before the wild Sulaiman mountains in South Waziristan, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 5

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Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, South America, c1923

Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, South America, c1923. The Atacama is the driest desert on Earth. A print from Countries of the World, Volume VI, edited by JA Hammerton, The Fleetway House, London, c1923

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