The Southwestern desert--that tumultuous "zone claimed by two
nations, and controlled by no one"--is Charles Bowden's home and
enduring passion. In acclaimed books ranging from A Shadow in the
City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior and Down by the
River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family to Inferno and
Exodus/Exodo, Bowden has written eloquently about issues that
plague the border region--the smuggling of drugs and people and the
violence that accompanies it, the rape of the environment and the
greed that drives it. Completing a trilogy that includes Inferno
and Exodus/Exodo, Bowden looks back in Trinity across centuries of
human history in the border region to offer his most encompassing
and damning indictment of "the murder of the earth all around
me."
Sparing no one, Bowden recounts how everyone who has laid claim
to the Southwestern desert--Native Americans, Spain, Mexico, and
the United States--has attempted to control and domesticate this
ecologically fragile region, often with devastating consequences.
He reserves special scorn for the U.S. government, whose attempts
at control have provoked consequences ranging from the massive land
grab of the Mexican War in the nineteenth century, to the nuclear
fallout of the first atomic bomb test in the twentieth century, to
the police state that is currently growing up around attempts to
seal the border and fight terrorism. Providing a stunning visual
counterpoint to Bowden's words, Michael Berman's photographs of the
desert reveal both its harsh beauty and the scars it bears after
centuries of human abuse.
Bowden's clearest warning yet about the perils facing the desert
he calls home, Trinity confirms that, in his words, "the border]
zone is a laboratory where the delusions of life--economic,
religious, military, foreign policy, biological, and
agricultural--can be tested. This time the edge is the center, this
time the edge is the face of the future."
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