The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country

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Price
$19.95  $18.55
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
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Pages
176
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780816546893

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About the Author
Gary Paul Nabhan is an Arab-American agro-ecologist, ethnobotanis, literary naturalist and Ecumenical Franciscan Brother who lives near the US/Mexican border. His collaborations with O'odham families and pueblos on both sides of the border now span 45 years. He is the recipient of a MacArthur genius award, a Labán Literary fellowship and several other honors for his cross-cultural community-based conservation initiatives to safeguard and restore biocultural diversity, sacred places and food traditions. He holds the W.K Kellogg Chair in Borderlands Foods and Water Security at the University of Arizona Southwest Center.
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"Nabhan's point is that we transplanted desert dwellers have a great deal to learn from longtime, environmentally conscious inhabitants if we are not to destroy our fragile home. . . . A remarkably humane essay on nature and respect for it."--Bloomsbury Review

"The Desert Smells Like Rain offers a remarkable insight, sensitive but unsentimental, combining the sound perceptions of a scientist with ecological concerns, matching humor and a sense of human frailty with tentative hope for the future."--High Country News

"His eyes are those of a scientist, his prose and vision a poet's: spare, evocative, respectful of both facts and mysteries."--Orion Nature Quarterly

"People often find science boring and ill written. Not in this book. Here the reader is lured into botany, ethnology, hydrology, and a couple of million acres by vivid writing, good pictures, and a beautifully produced book. . . . Anyone ignorant of the desert should begin their cure here."--Tucson Citizen

"The humor, spice, charm, insight, and compassion with which Gary Paul Nabhan weaves his tale make for enjoyable reading."--Rio Grande Sun