The Desert Smells Like Rain
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.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
... A remarkably humane essay on nature and respect for it . " -Bloomsbury Review The Desert Smells Like Rain A NATURALIST IN O'ODHAM COUNTRY GARY PAUL NABHAN T The Desert Smells Like Rain A Naturalist in O'odham Country. Front Cover.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
The Desert Smells Like Rain offers insights into the natural history of desert plants and animals as it documents a dying agricultural tradition that has enriched the biological diversity of the Papago's seemingly harsh environment.
The Norton Book of Nature Writing
Robert Finch, John Elder. director of research at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix . His books , The Desert Smells Like Rain ( 1982 ) and Gathering the Desert ( 1985 ) , winner of the John Burroughs Medal , come from his work with ...
A Desert Feast
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.
Sharing the Desert
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 ...
Journal of Ethnobiology
... of bird - song around a desert oasis , and a crescendo of mariachi and Papago polka bands , The Desert Smells Like Rain presents an intimate view of the Sonoran Desert and its native people . Ethnobiologist Gary Nahban shares his ...
Sanctuary
The Desert Smells Like Rain by Gary Paul Nabhan Coastal Live Oak by Gretel Ehrlich Platte River by Rick. L ast Saturday before dusk , the summer's 114- degree heat broke to 79 within an hour . A fury of wind whipped up , pelting houses ...
American Desert
... the desert . No , better yet , Nabhan writes like the desert . The arid lands that we call home , captivate the ... Smells Like Rain ' ' , published by North Point Press . This , his first book , earned him the prestigious , " John ...
