Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America - Brossura

Bowden, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865476292 ISBN 13: 9780865476295

Casa editrice: North Point Pr, 2002

Riassunto

In this ground-shaking, breath-taking cri de coeur, Bowden delves with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brave New World. The figures he casts before us-from Pancho Villa to a modern-day drug lord, from General Sherman to a skid-row Sioux named Robert Sundance-trace a story not so much of rapaciousness as of fear and loathing. Bowden twines it with the natural history of the hammer orchid, a carnivore whose deceptive delicacy comes to stand for the terror and hypocrisy that have perverted our love of the land, its peoples, and our very natures.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Charles Bowden is a journalist whose work appears regularly in Harper's, Esquire, GQ, and other national publications. He is the author of several previous books of nonfiction. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Book by Bowden Charles

Su questa edizione

• Editore: North Point Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0865476292
• ISBN 13: 9780865476295
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile