Charles Bowden
Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border
issues, Bowden was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper's, Esquire, and Mother
Jones, and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and
Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, a Lannan Literary Award
for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters
social and economic justice.
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Blue Desert
The University of Arizona Press
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. ...
Frog Mountain Blues
The University of Arizona Press
Called "Frog Mountain" by native Tohono O'odham people, the Santa Catalina Mountains offer the citizens of Tucson a wilderness in their own backyard. Over the years it has attracted treasure hunters and entrepreneurs; today recreational facilities dot its summits while resorts and housing development creep up its foothills and into ...
Blue Desert
Desert Monologues
The University of Arizona Press
A classic work of new journalism by a revered voice of the Southwest.
Frog Mountain Blues
The University of Arizona Press
When first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Today, that development is fully visible, but Charles Bowden’s prescience to preserve and protect a sacred recreational space remains as vivid as ever. Accompanied by Jack W. Dykinga’s photographs from the original work, this book conveys the natural beauty of the Catalinas and warns readers that this unique wilderness could easily be lost.
Dreamland
The Way Out of Juarez
By Charles Bowden; By (artist) Alice Leora Briggs
University of Texas Press
Desierto
Memories of the Future
By Charles Bowden; Foreword by William deBuys
University of Texas Press
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
By Charles Bowden; Foreword by William Langewiesche
University of Texas Press
