David Darlington

Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles

David Darlington

Darlington went out to Rachel, Nevada, in the mid-nineties and hung around long enough to write the book about the people, not the saucers. The base is real and the history is straight: The CIA built it in the fifties…

The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert

David Darlington

Darlington spent years driving and walking the Mojave in the years around the fight over the California Desert Protection Act, and the book is built out of the people who live there and can’t agree on anything. Miners who see…