Charles Bowden
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The Red Caddy
Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea
University of Texas Press
The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer.
- Copyright year: 2018
Mezcal
University of Texas Press
A reissue from the author of Blue Desert and The Red Caddy that charts the disintegration of the land, the loss of friends to drugs, and the decline of American innocence.
- Copyright year: 1988
Jericho
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Charles D'Ambrosio
University of Texas Press
In the fifth volume of his “Unnatural History of America” series, the award-winning journalist delivers a powerful meditation on human greed and bloodlust with razor-sharp reporting on Mexican drug cartels at the US border.
- Copyright year: 2020
Dakotah
The Return of the Future
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
University of Texas Press
In this fourth volume of his “Unnatural History of America” series, acclaimed journalist Charles Bowden interweaves his own biography with a vivid history of the American Great Plains to explore how identity is forged.
- Copyright year: 2019
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.
- Copyright year: 2018
Blue Desert
By Charles Bowden; Foreword by Francisco Cantú
The University of Arizona Press
Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden’s third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden’s growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America’s “New West.” With a thoughtful new foreword by Francisco Cantú, Blue Desert is a critical piece of Bowden’s oeuvre.
- Copyright year: 2018
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
University of Texas Press
The third book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity’s destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.
- Copyright year: 2018
Blues for Cannibals
The Notes from Underground
University of Texas Press
The second book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.
- Copyright year: 2018
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William Langewiesche
University of Texas Press
The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Red Line
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by James Galvin
University of Texas Press
Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center.
- Copyright year: 2018
Desierto
Memories of the Future
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William deBuys
University of Texas Press
A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.
- Copyright year: 2018
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