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Language:EnglishPublisher:Univ of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona PressISBN-13:9780816510818ISBN-10:816510814UPC:9780816510818Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.44 x 5.51 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC06PMQNY6
Blue Desert
In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has taken its toll on the land. Writing with a reporter's objectivity and a desert rat's passion, Bowden...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Univ of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona PressISBN-13:9780816510818ISBN-10:816510814UPC:9780816510818Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.44 x 5.51 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC06PMQNY6
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...
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona Press
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