Blue Desert

by Charles Bowden, Francisco Cantú (Foreword by)

Overview

"Blue Desert is a rare find."--Wilderness

"The book is surely an experience you should try."New Mexico Historical Review

"There is much that is solid and thought-provoking in this readable book, and virtually everyone will find something of interest."--Science Books & Films

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816537914
Publisher:	University of Arizona Press
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,121,574
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Charles Bowden was for three years a reporter for the Tucson Citizen, an afternoon daily newspaper. His stories covered everything from murder to copper strikes to interviews with Santa Claus and politicians. He became acquainted with the scientific floor of desert understanding and the political tumult of desert development while a researcher at the Office of Arid Lands Studies at the University of Arizona. He now lives in Tucson as a freelance writer, a pastime he describes as "practically a free ticket to the asylum." Nevertheless, he is author of Killing the Hidden Waters, Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life with Lewis Kreinberg, and Frog Mountain Blues (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga).

Table of Contents

Foreword Francisco Cantú xi

Coordinates of Blue Desert 3

I Beasts 7

Bats 11

Antelope 25

Tortoises 33

Fish 47

II Players 61

Escalante 65

Rios 77

Foreman 97

Company Man 113

III Deserts 129

Bone 133

Black 145

Blue 165

Editorial Reviews

"Blue Desert is a rare find."--Wilderness

"The book is surely an experience you should try."--New Mexico Historical Review

"There is much that is solid and thought-provoking in this readable book, and virtually everyone will find something of interest."--Science Books & Films

"You have this eerie feeling of being present in the Arizona desert . . . painfully engaging."-- Los Angeles Times

"Bowden is literally a voice crying in the wilderness. . . . it's wonderful to listen to him talk."-- New Times

"An unconventional but enthralling picture of the frenzy of modern life and its victims . . . a real gem."--Kirkus Reviews

"Bowden manages to write about these unfashionable topics with humor, style, laconic compression."--Edward Abbey

"The best book about the West this year . . . full of irony and mysticism and that eerie, spooky quality of the desert we all love."--California Magazine

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