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Chasing Wildflowers
A Mad Search for Wild Gardens

by Scott Calhoun

Rio Nuevo Publishers
ISBN 1-887896-988
$16.95, 128 pages

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"The desert is a mindset. It is not bound by fences or roadways or canals; it is... re-created, often in glorious details, by people's love for it."

What will possess a man to drive across state-lines, mountain ranges, deserts and international boundaries with nothing more than an old map, a ragged guidebook and a crazed look in his eyes? Wild women? No – wildflowers! Join author and desert-lover Scott Calhoun for a trip into the wildflower wilderness in his new book Chasing Wildflowers: A Mad Search for Wild Gardens. Calhoun’s latest book chronicles a series of botanical adventures throughout the Southwest in search of plants lovely in the wild and in gardens.

"If you think Bill Bryson writes great travel books, then you haven't read Scott Calhoun. A self-confessed plant groupie ready to brave suspect motels, dusty roads, and crack-of-dawn sorties into the wild in search of his trophies, Calhoun has spent weekends for the past two years on a series of wild and wonderful trips through the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. This is the diary of his adventures." 
     — Nan Sinton, Horticulture Magazine

"Calhoun is a rebel, a dissenter--he kicks against what is expected of a 40-year old husband and father, against what is expected in our gardens and against what is expected in a book about flowers." 
     — Tim Hull, from A La Mode Magazine

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