{"product_id":"9781426209109","title":"Southwestern Homelands","description":"For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the American Southwest and immersed himself in the region's wide-ranging wonders and idiosyncrasies. Here Kittredge brings all this experience to bear as he takes us on a rewarding tour of the territory that runs from Santa Fe to Yuma, and from the Grand Canyon on south through Phoenix and Tucson to Nogales. It is a region where urban sprawl abuts desert expanse, where Native American pueblos compete for space with agribusiness cotton plantations, and where semi-defunct mining towns slowly give way to new-age hippie gardening and crafts enclaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs part-time resident and full-time observer, William Kittredge acquaints us with one of the country's most vital and perpetually evolving regions. Populated with die-hard desert rats on the banks of the Colorado, theoretical physicists in Albuquerque, Hopi mothers and their daughters, and renegade punk-rock kids sleeping in the streets, \u003ci\u003eSouthwestern Homelands \u003c\/i\u003eis a book as much about the legacies of a territory's colorful past as it is about the alternately exciting and daunting complexities of its immediate future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"National Geographic Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127074439408,"sku":"9781426209109","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781426209109_p0.jpg?v=1769899314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781426209109","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}