Description
Book SynopsisOne of America''s foremost environmental writers joins with an acclaimed landscape photographer to create an unmatched portrait of the Sonoran Desert in all its harsh beauty.
Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007
Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007
Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona. But in working for environmental preservation, Bowden refuses to be one who 'outline[s] something straightforward, a manifesto with clear rules and a set of plans for others to follow.' In this deeply personal book, he brings the Sonoran Desert alive, not as a place where well-meaning people can go to enjoy 'nature,' but as a raw reality that defies bureaucratic and even literary attempts to define it, that can only be experienced through the sense
Table of Contents
- How This Book Came to Pass
- fair warning
- strike a match
- bones singing
