"People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as

Famed ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan learns the deeper meanings of ecology from Amalia Astorga, a Seri Indian.

Seri Indian oral history describes an extinct band of Seris who lived on San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California, yet nowhere are they mentioned in Europea