{"product_id":"frog-mountain-blues-9780816537921","title":"Frog Mountain Blues","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When it was first published in 1987, \u003ci\u003eFrog Mountain Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Alison Hawthorne Deming writes in the new foreword, \"\u003ci\u003eFrog Mountain Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\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 10\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816537921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Charles Bowden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51230751621301,"sku":"9780816537921","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_706e5e1b-dd4b-4ff6-9fcb-001a5850aeec.jpg?v=1750170063","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/frog-mountain-blues-9780816537921","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}