of the ‘civilized’ overuse of the entire planet.”- Bloomsbury Review He has written an engaging, thoughtful, and tough-minded book.”-Western American Literature “ catches the attractiveness, ambiguity, artificiality, and frightening developmental pace of urbanizing Arizona with a fine-tuned eye and ear, and lays out bluntly what is at stake.
makes an attractive-and effective-plea for wilderness preservation.”- Washington Post narrative is admirably supported by Dykinga’s dramatic photographs.”- Publishers Weekly “ delineates the creeping environmental degradation that occurs when a boomtown pushes toward a wilderness. Frog Mountain Blues is part bitterness, part lament, a love story and a tragedy.”- New York Times Book Review “ prose trembles with a raw and vital energy.
“A beautifully written, handsomely illustrated love poem to a mountain range that has the fatal curse of being not merely too awesome in its beauty for its own good but, worse, too accessible to man.”- Los Angeles Times Book Review 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.Īs Alison Hawthorne Deming writes in the new foreword, “ Frog Mountain Blues 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.”
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. When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the Catalinas’ foothills. 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.
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