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Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life: China/Tibet Stories From the Road and All You Need to Know to Embark on Your Own Adventure Travels by Charles Bowden 9781734148329
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734148329Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Charles BowdenPublisher... -
Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life: Mexico Stories From the Road and All You Need to Know to Embark on Your Own Adventure Travels by Charles Bowden 9781734148305
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734148305Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Charles BowdenPublisher... -
The Charles Bowden Reader by Charles Bowden
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70"I will make bold to say that Bowden is America's most alarming writer. Just when you think you've heard it all you learn you haven't in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles... -
Mezcal by Charles Bowden
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.66Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern... -
Sonata by Charles Bowden
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05"I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise."Sonata marks the... -
Jericho by Charles Bowden
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes... -
Inferno by Charles Bowden 9780292713307
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $61.09One 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. Winner, Southwest Book... -
Exodus/Exodo by Charles Bowden 9780292718142
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $68.74Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more... -
Desierto: Memories of the Future by Charles Bowden
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."-Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora... -
Red Line by Charles Bowden 9781477316610
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.66"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's... -
Blue Desert by Charles Bowden 9780816537914
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537914Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Arizona... -
Blue Desert by Charles Bowden 9780816510818
Booksplease Price: $29.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816510818Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint University of Arizona... -
Frog Mountain Blues by Charles Bowden 9780816537921
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537921Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona... -
Killing the Hidden Waters by Charles Bowden 9780292743069
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44In the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation... -
Dakotah: The Return of the Future Charles Bowden 9781477334300
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by... -
The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey by Charles Bowden
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.41A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert... -
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future by Charles Bowden
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53The third book in Charles Bowden's "accidental trilogy" that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: "How... -
Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground by Charles Bowden 9781477316870
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation... -
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin by Charles Bowden 9781568586588
Booksplease Price: $25.49In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs... -
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden
Booksplease Price: $30.40Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.Book InformationISBN... -
A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Charles Bowden 9780156032537
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032537Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher... -
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate... -
America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden by Bill Broyles 9781477319901
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the... -
El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man by Molly Molloy
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.64MEET EL SICARIO.A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head.He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training... -
These United States by John Leonard 9781560256182
Booksplease Price: $42.65These United States is a landmark original anthology that includes essays by Sherman Alexie on Washington, Annie Proulx on Wyoming, James Lee Burke on Louisiana, Tony Hillerman on New Mexico, Molly... -
Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey by ML Lincoln 9780826361523
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12Wrenched from the Land features sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured in this book are inspired by the... -
On Nature's Terms: Contemporary Voices by Thomas J. Lyon 9780890965221
Booksplease Price: $38.43Outside, where the wind is blowing, we see the world on nature's terms, and we see that it is severely endangered. Turning inward, we seek a sense of connection with nature that could perhaps help us... -
The Opal Desert: Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest by Peter Wild
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual... -
The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat by Richard Mahler 9780300122251
Booksplease Price: $118.91In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, an intimate portrait of the endangered, exotic, and elusive jaguar When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are... -
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99Worlding the Westerntakes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of... -
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala
Booksplease Price: $56.28Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: $40.70From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico by Temoris Grecko
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in... -
The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border by Teresa Rodriguez 9780743292047
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.36The Daughters of Juarez will be the first, major non-fiction work to examine the Juarez murders. In it, authors Rodriguez, Montane and Pulitzer will focus on retelling the stories of these missing... -
Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature by Tom Lynch 9780896726383
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.94The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include the regions writers and the works that mirror their love of desert... -
Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life by 9781594773822
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.16he first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form * Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction * Develops processes to... -
Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security Todd Miller 9780872866317
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.35"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights...