Blue Desert
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 175pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full blue cloth with gilt title on backstrip. With a very minor lean to the spine. In the dust jacket, with moderate rubbing and light scratching to the surface. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #70591
ISBN: 0816510059
Signed by the author on the title page. Additionally, inscribed by Bowden to bookman and publisher Ernie Bulow on the half title. 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 takes us into the streets as well as the desert to depict not a fragile environment but the unavoidable reality of abuse, exploitation and human cruelty.
Price: $200.00