Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden's third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing his growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America's "New West". Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that measures how rapid growth takes its toll on the land. Includes a new foreword by Francisco Cantu.
Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden's third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing his growing and inten...
Charles Bowden Jack W. Dykinga Alison Hawthorne Deming
When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the Catalinas' foothills. Today, that development is fully visible, but Charles Bowden's prescience of the urgency to preserve and protect a sacred recreational space remains as vivid as ever.
When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the Catalinas' foothills. Today, that de...
