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In either case, no one else has even thought of seeing such things; yet without such insights, the lives of Lehi and the Jaredites would \"remain in the shadows,\" as Elder John A. Widtsoe said in his foreword to the 1952 publication of Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book began in 1948 with Dr. Nibley's article \"The Book of Mormon as a Mirror of the East,\" which soon grew into three lengthy serials, \"Lehi in the Desert\" in 1950, \"The World of the Jaredites\" in 1951-52, and \"There Were Jaredites\" in 1956-57, all of which were published in the Improvement Era. In 1952, the first two serials were published as a book entitled \u003cem\u003eLehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites\u003c\/em\u003e. That volume has enjoyed wide circulation for thirty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the present volume, the work of the editors has been confined largely to technical tasks. 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