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Summary Of Ellen Meloy S The Anthropology Of Turquoise
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-28T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Ellen Meloy S The Anthropology Of Turquoise written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28T22:59:00Z with History categories.
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The Anthropology Of Turquoise
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2003-07-08
The Anthropology Of Turquoise written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-08 with Nature categories.
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo “velvet grandmothers” whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.
Eating Stone
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-07-29
Eating Stone written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-29 with Nature categories.
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing severance of man from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.
Raven S Exile
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Raven S Exile written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Travel categories.
More than a century after John Wesley Powelllaunched his boat on the Green River, Ellen Meloy spent eight years of seasonal floats through Utah's Desolation Canyon with her husband, a federal river ranger. She came to know the history and natural history of this place well enough to call it home, and has recorded her observations in a book that is as wide-ranging as the river and as wild as the wilderness through which it runs.
The Anthropology Of Turquoise
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-11-26
The Anthropology Of Turquoise written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-26 with Nature categories.
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo “velvet grandmothers” whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.
Seasons
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Seasons written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by Torrey House Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Nature categories.
"Sharp as the needles on a pinyon pine, these essays will make you rethink your view of the American West. Meloy's wise and unexpected observations are a pure delight." —MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, readers will delight in her signature wit and charm—and feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends. With a foreword by Annie Proulx. ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her book The Anthropology of Turquoise (2002) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award in the adventure and travel category. She is also the author of Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River (1994), The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (2001), and Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (2005). Meloy spent most of her life in wild, remote places; at the time of her sudden death in November 2004 (three months after completing Eating Stone), she and her husband were living in southern Utah.
Seasons
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Seasons written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by Torrey House Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Nature categories.
Personal, humorous, and heartbreaking, each of these twenty-five essays by National Book Critic Circle Award finalist Ellen Meloy illuminates a facet of human connection to nature and challenges us to examine the world anew. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, readers will delight in her signature wit and charm. With a foreword by Annie Proulx.
Stone And Sky
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Author : Graham Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-12
Stone And Sky written by Graham Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12 with Dragons categories.
The Last Cheater S Waltz
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Author : Ellen Meloy
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2000-11-01
The Last Cheater S Waltz written by Ellen Meloy and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-01 with Nature categories.
In this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade. . . . Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or valueÑa place that she calls home. Despite twenty years of carefully nurtured intimacy with this red-rock landscape, Meloy finds herself, one sunbaked morning, staring down at a dead lizard floating in her coffee and feeling suddenly unmoored. What follows is a quest that is both physical and spiritual, a search for home.
All Men Are Liars
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-06-05
All Men Are Liars written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Fiction categories.
In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment. In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.