A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West—a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our forem

""Desert America: Territory of Paradox" is a survey of the extreme uses and activities that take place in the area roughly encompassing Nevada, Utah, New Mexico

Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite th

Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.