The Desert Smells Like Rain
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The Desert Smells Like Rain
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Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2002-04-01
The Desert Smells Like Rain written by Gary Paul Nabhan 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 2002-04-01 with Nature categories.
Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land—a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing O'odham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize wild edible foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O'odham children's impressions of the desert, and observations on the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Whether visiting a sacred cave in the Baboquivari Mountains or attending a saguaro wine-drinking ceremony, Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people in a book that has become a contemporary classic of environmental literature.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
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Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2022-08-30
The Desert Smells Like Rain written by Gary Paul Nabhan 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 2022-08-30 with Nature categories.
Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people. In this work, Gary Paul Nabhan brings O’odham voices to the page at every turn. He writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize edible wild foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O’odham children’s impressions of the desert, and observations of the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people. This edition includes a new preface written by the author, in which he reflects on his gratitude for the O’odham people who shared their knowledge with him. He writes about his own heritage and connections to the desert, climate change, and the border. He shares his awe and gratitude for O’odham writers and storytellers who have been generous enough to share stories with those of us from other cultural traditions so that we may also respect and appreciate the smell of the desert after a rain. Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land—a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing O'odham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize wild edible foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O'odham children's impressions of the desert, and observations on the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Whether visiting a sacred cave in the Baboquivari Mountains or attending a saguaro wine-drinking ceremony, Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people in a book that has become a contemporary classic of environmental literature.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
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Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Desert Smells Like Rain written by Gary Paul Nabhan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Sonoran Desert categories.
A Desert Feast
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Author : Carolyn Niethammer
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-09-22
A Desert Feast written by Carolyn Niethammer 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 2020-09-22 with Cooking categories.
Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence Tucson menus and how the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Tucsonans ate. White Sonora wheat, tepary beans, and criollo cattle steaks make Tucson’s cuisine unique. In A Desert Feast, you’ll see pictures of kids learning to grow food at school, and you’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to growing and using heritage foods. It’s fair to say, “Tucson tastes like nowhere else.”
Singing The Turtles To Sea
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Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-06-26
Singing The Turtles To Sea written by Gary Paul Nabhan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-26 with Nature categories.
Through stories, songs, photographs, illustrations of Comcaac arts, and discussions of Sonoran ecology, Nabhan demonstrates the irreplaceable value of this knowledge for us today.".
Sharing The Desert
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Author : Winston P. Erickson
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2003-04-01
Sharing The Desert written by Winston P. Erickson 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 2003-04-01 with History categories.
This book marks the culmination of fifteen years of collaboration between the University of Utah's American West Center and the Tohono O'oodham Nation's Education Department to collect documents and create curricular materials for use in their tribal school system. . . . Erickson has done an admirable job compiling this narrative.ÑPacific Historical Review
Journal Of Ethnobiology
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Journal Of Ethnobiology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Animal remains (Archaeology) categories.
Sanctuary
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Sanctuary written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Agriculture categories.
American Desert
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
American Desert written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Desert ecology categories.
Deserts
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Author : Wayne Grady
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Deserts written by Wayne Grady and has been published by Greystone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Nature categories.
Next to rain forests, deserts are the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth. In fact, a desert is never a single ecosystem but a concentration of dozens, ranging from arid flatlands to high mesas to canyons, and oases. Filled with unexpected life and unforgiving conditions, the desert evokes a vivid and passionate response from those who experience it and has inspired powerful literature. The writings in this collection celebrate this complex environment in all its wondrous guises. Among them, 19th-century explorer Sven Hedin staggers through a deadly sandstorm in the Taklamatan desert, whose name means "You enter and do not return." Ann Zwinger contemplates golden asters and rabbitbush in a lonely Utah canyon. Ariel Dorfman encounters time and memory in El Norte Grande. This fascinating anthology is the first in a series from Greystone Books celebrating a single natural or geographic phenomenon through the eyes of major world writers past and present.