Baum Locations Gazetteer · Desert
Deadly Desert
Also called: Dreadful Desert · Deadly Sandy Desert · Sandy Desert
A desert explicitly named in Baum's Oz corpus. It is cataloged under Border of Oz.
Enchanted
Scene
Explicit evidence
Gazetteer
Location record
- Knowledge ID
- LOC-0030
- Canonical name
- Deadly Desert
- Type
- Desert
- Status
- Enchanted
- Narrative presence
- Scene
- Parent
- Border of Oz
- First appearance
- The Marvelous Land of Oz · Chapter 17
Baum evidence
First matched evidence
Next came the wide, sandy desert separating the rest of the world from the Land of Oz, and before noon they saw the dome-shaped houses that proved they were once more within the borders of their native land.
Cross-book occurrences