Four Corners History, Land and People of the Desert Southwest

"A rich portrait of a region that has witnessed the earth shift, oceans retreat, peoples destroyed and its own land desiccated. As journalist Brown points out, tourists visiting the Colorado Plateau might not realize the threat they pose to the desert ecosystem...They might view the sparsely populated landscape and think how much more life the region could sustain, when in fact it is already supporting more than it can comfortably handle....Brown tells the stories of [the Ute and Navajo Indians] with sensitivity, successfully walking the line between revisionist and conventional histories, and he is very lucid when discussing difficult concepts of paleobotany, geophysics, and other sciences...vivid and multilayered.Brown, Kenneth A. is the author of 'Four Corners History, Land and People of the Desert Southwest' with ISBN 9780060927592 and ISBN 0060927593.