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"A walking journey across Arizona with essays on wildfire, copper mining, border crossing, dirty politics, Native culture, violence, suburban monotony, shrinking water, local cuisine, literary culture and the Grand Canyon. I have sought to write the mostcomprehensive one-volume portrait of Arizona ever written: a deep narrative map"--
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journey through redrock country, down canyons, up mesas, and across...
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Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust, and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order. Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts, and America would knowingly...