Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America (Paperback)

By Charles Bowden
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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.

About the Author

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.

Praise for Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America…

"Blood Orchid is its own trip, brilliant [and] always compelling. Bowden says what he means, hang the consequences. He is becoming one of our most important voices in the so-called New West." -William Kittredge, Los Angeles Times

"Bowden's anger is delicious [He] believes that the environmental crisis is not fundamentally physical but rather is caused by the fact that `we have lost the fire and belief and courage to act.' His book is ironic proof that the embers of that fire still glow." --Outside

"A first-rate eye-opener to our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox (all of them) books about America."--Jim Harrison

Product Details ISBN-10: 0865476292
ISBN-13: 9780865476295
Published: North Point Press, 02/01/2002
Pages: 320
Language: English