Bruce Berger Livres

Award-winning photographer Miguel Angel de la Cueva captures the stunning landscapes of southern Baja California through gorgeous full-color imagery. Complemented by evocative text from Bruce Berger, the book explores the region's unique geology and diverse ecosystems, including coastal, desert, and mountain environments. This visually rich coffee-table book showcases the vibrant flora and fauna of Mexico's lesser-known peninsula, inviting readers to appreciate its natural beauty and ecological significance.

Winner of the 1990 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, The Telling Distance evokes the yearning expanses of our southwestern deserts and finds them full of sensuous marvels, erratic life forms, eccentric fellow travelers, dry humor, and surprise. In prose that revels in paradox, it reveals desert distances to be doubly telling: they both magnify our spirit and have incomparable tales to tell.

We chart the canals of Phoenix, which have created a Martian landscape out of an irrigation system dating back to the ancient Hohokam; stay at a "wigwam" motel in Holbrook, whose kitsch appeals even to Hopis; and dim our lights for the International Dark-Sky Association's efforts to keep night skies safe for astronomy.