Salvation Canyon: A True Story of Desert Survival in Joshua Tree

By Ed Rosenthal June 2020. Paperback. $16.95 | 9781733957977 (pb)$14.99 | 9781733957960 (ebook) A Los Angeles poet's hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills. Ed Rosenthal, "the poet-broker", advocates for historic properties in downtown Los Angeles and negotiates to save them. In 2010, after closing his biggest deal, he skips town to Joshua Tree National Park, only to find himself inexplicably lost. Over six grueling days without water, food, or hope, snippets of his life and his hard-knock youth in Queens play over the inspiring yet deadly landscape in soaring 120-degree heat. The God of Random Chance has, despite his best efforts his whole life, finally caught up to him. He describes his ordeal and its setting in intimate, vivid detail: surreal visions mix with wayfinding and intuitive wisdom in a poet’s-eye view of the life-lessons and magic that the desert can hold.  Rosenthal's shocking ordeal was covered on The