THE SENSITIVES: The Rise of Environmental Illness and the Search for America's Last Pure Place

Somewhere in the wilds of Arizona a man has gone missing. His friends fear he has died by suicide. This work takes us on a search for Brian Welsh, through empty miles of primordial landscape and branching side paths into the past, where the history of charlatanism, German metaphysics, early American medicine, and a host of other subjects hold clues.