Berman, Michael P. Inferno by Charles Bowden. Photographs by Michael P. Berman.

University of Texas Press, 2006.  First edition, hardcover in gray cloth, very good with light corner bumps and slight shelf wear on protected dust jacket. An attractive copy, better than usually found.  Issued at $45.  Author Charles Bowden is an impassioned advocate for the Sonoran Desert and helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran National Monument in southern Arizona. His text is accompanied by numerous full page black and white photographs by Michael P. Berman, the photographer and artist of San Lorenzo, New Mexico. According to his website, Berman "was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 to photograph the remnant grasslands of the Chihuahuan Desert. His photographs are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum and the Museum of New Mexico. In 2013, he received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in New Mexico and has also been a recipient of Painting Fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Wurlitzer Foundation; his installations, photographs, and paintings have been reviewed in Art in America, and exhibited throughout the country."