“If ever you wondered how to connect Asian ungulates to antifascist fighters, Mississippian earth mounds to desert land art, Manzanar to the wars in Burma, past and present: look no further. Edith Mirante has illuminated the path with contagious curiosity and wry humor, lighting out on this quintessentially anarchist quest for nothing less than truth, freedom, and beauty.”
— Mark Sundeen, author of Delusions + Grandeur and The Man Who Quit Money

In these exhilarating essays, Chatwinesque adventurer Edith Mirante reveals remote Chinland, pandemic Yellowstone, Manzanar, Cahokia, Heizer’s City. Interwoven are themes of Indigenous resistance, land rights, wildness, art in times of conflict, the guns and tanks of Burma. Bison, elk, muskox and mithuns roam. There could be heroes: World War II artists Anthony Gross and Clive Branson, labor firebrand Karl Yoneda. There will be revolution, and enchantment.

“Edith Mirante takes readers on literary adventures, and like the Situationists’ exploratory rambles, her tales of World War II leftists, resistance in Burma (Myanmar), the natural history of the mithun and muskox, American Mound Builder culture and protests in Portland, Oregon meld into an alternative, cohesive and slyly humorous map readers will yearn to follow.”
— Cathy Camper, author, Lowriders in Space graphic novel series, and Ten Ways to Hear Snow

“These essays provide wonderful snapshots of Burma, art and history. They visit parts of Burma that we don’t usually read about or see in the news. I found them fascinating and enlightening.”
— Zoya Phan, author of Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma

• Print length: 247 pp
• Format: Paperback
• Publishing date: November 2025
• Dimensions: 8.5″x 5.5″
• ISBN: 979-8-9915378-3-4
• Library of Congress Control Number: 2025944918