Low Life in the High Desert: a California memoir
By David Hirst and Valerie Morton
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“You are one crazy Australian”, David Hirst was informed when he met the locals of Pioneertown for the first time. “When are you gonna move out here?”
Low Life in the High Desert recounts the adventures of an Australian journalist, his girlfriend, and their dog, who moved across the world to make the California High Desert their new home. Moving into Boulder House — a huge, rambling edifice constructed from giant boulders to withstand a Russian invasion — they were hurled into a world that few ever get to experience up close.
The weird and wonderful cast of characters they encountered and befriended in one of the last outposts of America’s Wild West is recounted here with great humour and humanity. This is an unforgettable account of strangers in a kind of paradise.
David Hirst
David Hirst was an Australian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Heroin in Australia. A great love of the American West took him to California and ultimately to a life in the Eastern Mojave desert. Upon returning to Australia, his prescient and revolutionary finance column, ‘Planet Wall Street’, was widely read in The Age newspaper. David died in 2013.
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