Böcker av Charles Bowden

In this sixth and final installment of his "Unnatural History of America" series, journalist Charles Bowden contrasts the intractable violence of man with the enduring beauty of the natural world, and its potential for regeneration.

"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"--

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.

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.

The author of Blood Orchid explores the history of the Sioux alongside that of his own family in this posthumous work.When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed ';Unnatural History of America.' Bowden uses America's Great Plains as a lenssometimes sullied, sometimes shattered, but always sharpfor observing pivotal moments in the lives of anguished figures, including himself.In scenes that are by turns wrenching and poetic, Bowden describes the Sioux's forced migrations and rebellions alongside his own ancestors' migrations from Europe to Midwestern acres beset by unforgiving winters. He meditates on the lives of his resourceful mother and his philosophical father, who rambled between farm communities and city life. Interspersed with these images are clear-eyed, textbook-defying anecdotes about Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and, with equal verve, twentieth-century entertainers ';Pee Wee' Russell, Peggy Lee, and other musicians. The result is a kaleidoscopic journey that penetrates the senses and redefines the notion of heartland. Dakotah is a powerful ode to loss from one of our most fiercely independent writers.';[Dakotah] is about hope, disappointment, impermanence and erasure... This is a meditation Bowden fans will not want to miss.' Arizona Daily Star';This posthumous work continues Bowden's uniquely ecocritical writingstarting from human common ground and ending with the ground itselfand allows us to hear his voice long past his own time in earth. It is a worthy offering.' Western American Literature

Just in time for the 2008 election and the national immigration debate, this searing documentary of the largest single transnational migration in history forces us to face the tremendous human cost of a failed Mexican state and a relentlessly globalizing

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed Charles Bowden, a stunning work of reportage on Ciudad Juarez--the blood-soaked town caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's escalating drug wars

With excerpts from his major booksoBlue Desert, Desierto: Memories of the Future, Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals, A Shadow in the City, Trinity, and Some of the Dead Are Still Breathingoas well as prominent magazine articles and early journalism, this anthology gathers the best and most representative writing from Charles Bowden's entire career

This striking work of graphic journalism pairs previously unpublished creative nonfiction by Charles Bowden with provocative scratchboard drawings by Alice Leora Briggs to create a vignette of daily life in Juarez, Mexico, in all its surreal brutality and

The costs and limits of using natural resources, demonstrated through a simple example: water.

One of America's foremost environmental writers joins with an acclaimed landscape photographer to create an unmatched portrait of the Sonoran Desert in all its harsh beauty.