Gregory McNamee was born in 1957, and is a writer, editor and photographer, who specialises in ecology and natural history. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, and has spent his life exploring and writing about the desert South West. This book is a collection of essays on that and related topics. From the development and legacy of the atomic bomb , to the history of dispossession of the Indians by the arrival of Europeans, to conflict over water rights, to the lives of local animals, it's a passionate and moving collection.