Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild - Rilegato

Meloy, Ellen

 
9780375422164: Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild

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A close-up portrait of a year in the life of a herd of rare desert bighorn sheep follows their enigmatic animals and their behavior, life cycles, and habitat, and offers an evocative celebration of the desolate splendor of their rugged high desert environment. 10,000 first printing.

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Ellen Meloy, a recipient of a Whiting Foundation Award in 1997, was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her previous book, The Anthropology of Turquoise, 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 and The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest. 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.

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9781400031771: Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

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ISBN 10:  140003177X ISBN 13:  9781400031771
Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006
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