{"product_id":"blue-desert-9780816510818","title":"Blue Desert","description":"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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBlue Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eBlue Desert\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Desert\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816510818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.51w x 0.64d","brand":"Charles Bowden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644690067612,"sku":"9780816510818","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f2e3959-08ce-4826-a800-e9fc5a612e42.jpg?v=1603859226","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blue-desert-9780816510818","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}