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Frog Mountain Blues

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Frog Mountain Blues

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The Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson—whose summit is called Frog Mountain by the Tohono O'odham—offers up to the citizens of the basins below a wilderness in their own backyard. When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the Catalinas' foothills. Today, that development is fully visible, but Charles Bowden's prescience of the urgency 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 continues to convey the natural beauty of the Catalinas and warns readers that this unique wilderness could easily be lost. As Alison Hawthorne Deming writes in the new foreword, ""Frog Mountain Blues continues to be an important book for learning to read this place through the eyes of experience and history, and Bowden remains a sobering voice for facing our failures in protecting what we love in this time of global destruction, for taking seriously the power of language to set ourselves right again with the enormous task of living with purpose and presence and care on the land.

Author Biography:

Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was the author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and U.S.-Mexico border issues. He was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones. His honors include a PEN First Amendment Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Jack Dykinga blends fine art photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic and the author or photographer of numerous books, most recently A Photographer’s Life. Alison Hawthorne Deming is an author of poetry and nonfiction, including The Edges of the Civilized World.
Release date Australia
October 30th, 2018
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Foreword by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Illustrations
27 black & white photographs, 1 map
Pages
200
ISBN-13
9780816537921
Product ID
27847467

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