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Blue Desert (Paperback) Loot Price: R500
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Blue Desert (Paperback): Charles Bowden

Blue Desert (Paperback)

Charles Bowden

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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 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. Blue Desert shows us the Sunbelt's darker side as it has developed in recent times-where "the land always makes promises of aching beauty and the people always fail the land"-and defies us to ignore it. Blue Desert has no boundaries, no terrain, no topographical coordinates; it is a state of mind inescapable to one who sees change and knows that nothing can be done to stop it.

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Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1988
First published: April 1988
Authors: Charles Bowden
Dimensions: 214 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - With dust jacket
Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-1081-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
LSN: 0-8165-1081-4
Barcode: 9780816510818

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