Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S.-Mexico Border | 
| Author: John Annerino
Publisher: Countryman
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1288798
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0881507172
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.10830222
EAN: 9780881507171
ASIN: 0881507172
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
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Product Description
John Annerino, famed photographer of the Amerian Southwest, portrays the astonishing beauty of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and contrasts those with images of the conflict that threatens to destroy them.
These 1,956 miles through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California on the U.S. side and Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California Norte on Mexico's side are the beautiful, rugged, blood-stained borderlands that once lured conquistadors, missionaries, scalp hunters, bandits, smugglers, pioneers, and colonists from Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
Annerino canoed the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte through the legendary Big Bend Frontier, walked treacherous immigrant trails like Arizona's Camino del Diablo (Road of the Devil), explored borderlands jaguar country on foot, and came to know the resilient people who live, work, and cling to the traditions on both sides of the border. Along the way he chronicled his perilous journeys through this "geography of chaos," capturing in remarkable photographs and evocative essays the stunning landscapes whose fragile environment is threatened by today's politics.
"John Annerino is one of the handful of photographers with a real empathy for the West. His work has an edge to it, reflecting the sheer size and power of his subject—a subject he treats with respect and love. This land, which is so much a part of the American psyche, now threatened by pollution, by the spread of human settlement, and by exploitation, is as raw and exciting in Annerino's work as it is in our mind's eye."—Newsweek
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 First on the Front Lines - Compelling imagery and essays November 13, 2008
While the Sierra Club covered its eyes, ears, and voice to the humane rights crisis, abuses and environmental disaster that unfolded in the borderlands over the last decade, John Annerino was first on the front lines to document the life and death saga on the U.S./Mexico border in his riveting non-fiction book, Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands. While the Sierra Club stood motionless, Annerino was the first to document the smugglers - and a National Park Ranger's death by their guns - in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for National Geographic Adventure. While the Sierra Club remained mum and pondered what to do, conservationist Annerino continued documenting habitat destruction in Cabeza National Wildlife Refuge for National Geographic Adventure. And while the Sierra Club stood on one side of the border producing its sanitized club-fomercial "Wild Versus Wall," Annerino (author and photographer of 7 distinct Sierra Club Books' editions) was doing what he does best, working dangerous terrain and wild country -- often alone --on both sides of the United States/Mexico border. He was befriending locals, (Mexicans, indigenous people, and Americans), illegal immigrants, dangerous smugglers, and law enforcement officers, talking face to face, listening to their stories, and taking sensitive portraits. Far from help and home, he was exploring magnificent and rugged transborder landmarks, rivers, deserts, mountains, and canyons, and making stunning landscape photographs. Armed with a camera and pen, he was taking a hard look, making notes, drawing maps, and documenting the environmental destruction, migrant deaths, and border agent killings for his compelling book, Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S.-Mexico Border. The Seattle Times wrote: `Vanishing Borderlands artfully captures the beauty and fragility of this extraordinary and dangerous paradise. . . gracefully balancing the region's grandeurs with its truths'."
 Beautiful book November 10, 2008
Few have more experience in the desert borderlands than John Annerino. His excellent photography and years of wilderness experience combine to provide a very unique look at the border. Jammed with beautiful, raw twilight photos of timeless border landscapes, the large format and intense colors expose the high stakes of our border crisis. Entitled "Vanishing Borderlands," the book is a little soft on the U.S. border policies that are endangering the lands so wonderfully captured in its photography. The last section of the book is a bit of a glorification of the enforcement activities that are ripping our protected public lands and wildlife habitats to shreds. Still, Annerino gives a great overview of the border wall project, the damage it causes to fragile ecosystems, and, most importantly, the absolute grandeur of the lands it threatens to dissect.
Dan Millis
Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign
Tucson, Arizona
WOW!! November 2, 2008
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John Annerino's "Vanishing Borderlands" speaks lightyears of truth the mainstream media fails miserabably at. This volume leaves no stone unturned, no door closed, no letter unopened. "Vanishing Borderlands" presents the full (and bulletproof) spectrum on the border issue and nothing less. His personal accounts and spectacular imagery will transport you to a world like no other. You will meet folks who risk all in hopes of a better life and those who prey upon them. You will meet those who risk all to protect our border and you will meet some who gave it all. You will also meet the killers and outlaws who make their living smuggling people and drugs across a fragile environment daily. Annerino will show you what has happened to the land via his brilliant photography. It is all here in "Vanishing Borderlands"! Annerino will take you to where it all happens and tell you who, what, when, where, why and how the deadliest stretch of contested real estate in America and Mexico lives on. "Vanishing Borderlands" is a no holds barred expedition into a world no one likes to talk about. Down here along the border, seeing or hearing the wrong thing will get ANYONE killed. Only Annerino succeeds in revealing everything and nothing less than the truth. His experience, his respect for the lands, his symphony of imagery and persona breathes life where all others have failed. John gets it right as only he can do. It wouldn't surprise me to learn tons of folks have made a carreer, completed doctoral degrees or testified before Congress because of what Annerino has contributed and done with his life to get the REAL WORD out. "Vanishing Borderlands" will take you where no one'd dare. Not even Hollywood! Anything else is a waste of money! Want the wildest ride to be had on the subject? Get this book!
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