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The Oregon Dunes, near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. After his novel The Dragon in the Sea was published in 1957, Herbert traveled to Florence, Oregon, at the north end of the Oregon Dunes. Here, the United States Department of Agriculture was attempting to use poverty grasses to stabilize the sand dunes.
In 1957, author Frank Herbert traveled to the Oregon Dunes on a reporting assignment. He wrote on the use of grasses to slow the movement of the dunes, prevent them from spreading, from taking over.
The Oregon Dunes are over 100,000 years old and stretch approximately 40 miles (64 km). The youngest dunes, which are the closest to the ocean, began forming about 7,000 years ago. Studies of individual sand grains show that these sands were carried down from the mountains by the Umpqua, Siuslaw, and other smaller rivers. [4]
The Oregon Dunes near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. [23] He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming their breadwinner during the 1960s. [24]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Oregon Dunes National Recreation ... appearing as early as the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune. ...
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This companion work to the Dune novels includes an alternate novel based on Frank Herbert's original notes for his 1965 novel Dune, letters between Frank Herbert and his editor, the original article by Frank Herbert which inspired the creation of Dune — "They Stopped the Moving Sands" — as well as unused chapters from Dune and its sequel Dune Messiah (1969), and the short stories in the ...
In Dune, Duke Leto Atreides, his Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Jessica, and their son Paul arrive on Arrakis to take control of melange mining operations there. The mysterious Fremen housekeeper at the palace of Arrakeen is known as the Shadout Mapes, and when Paul saves her life from a deadly hunter-seeker intended to kill him, Mapes warns of a traitor in the Atreides household.