Enchantment and Exploitation

The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition

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About The Book

Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel.

About The Author

William deBuys is the author of numerous books, including Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, and the Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, with photographs by Alex Harris.

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (December 15, 2015)
  • Length: 384 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826353429

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Author William deBuys provides a detailed analysis of the relationship between the natural ecosystem and human activity in northern New Mexico. His historical perspective reflects centuries of interactions between people and the physical environment.--Rosanne Boyett, Cibola Citizen

A classic work of regional history and cultural analysis.--Pasatiempo

A classic work of regional history and cultural analysis.--Pasatiempo

William deBuys is a nature writer who brings clear and deep insights to his subjects. . . . [Enchantment and Exploitation] tells the long, twin, interlaced stories of the human history and the natural history of northern New Mexico through the lens of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.--Albuquerque Journal

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