Text by Charles Bowden. Photographs by Michael P. Berman. Inferno burns with Charles Bowden’s passion for the desert he calls home. ‘I want to eat the dirt and lick the rock. Or leave the shade for the sun and feel the burning. I know I don’t belong here. But this is the only place I belong,” he says. His vivid description, complemented by Michael Berman’s acutely observed photographs, make readers feel the heat and smell the dryness, see the colors in earth and sky, and hear the singing of dry bones across the parched ground.

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