A western adventure becomes a journey of expiation and redemption.

Adam flees to the desert to save his life, and discovers the need to save his soul.

In the searing heat of Death Valley, lonely land of prospectors and hermits, he

confronts his baser instincts as he struggles to survive, striving to rise above them.

Wanderer of the Wasteland is Zane Grey’s most personal novel: a thinly-veiled

autobiography written in remarkably poetic language. Filled with colorful

characters, and vibrant descriptions of the southwestern desert landscape he so

loved, this is the story of one man’s internal battle to save his better self, or die

trying.

About the author:

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing

dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, published his

first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his

characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed

through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous

with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Riders of the

Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. More than 130 films have been

based on his work.

This book was published in 1923, and is now in the public domain

Produced by Madison Productions

Public domain (P)2020, Copyright Madison Productions, all rights reserved

Narrated by Michael Kramer

Post production: Erik Synnestvedt

Cover Art by Teresa Castracane