The Desert Smells Like Rain

The Desert Smells Like Rain
Title The Desert Smells Like Rain PDF eBook
Author Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Total Pages 177
Release 2022-08-30
Genre Nature
ISBN 0816548617

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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

The Desert Smells Like Rain
Title The Desert Smells Like Rain PDF eBook
Author Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher North Point Press
Total Pages 158
Release 1987-09-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780865470507

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From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the dynamics of their arid homeland in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. 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. Drawing on his extensive scientific research and study of Papago folklore, as well as his years of work among the Desert People in village gardening and nutrition programs, Nabhan portrays a desert-adapted way of life that has persisted despite the pressures of modern civilization.

The Norton Book of Nature Writing

The Norton Book of Nature Writing
Title The Norton Book of Nature Writing PDF eBook
Author Robert Finch
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages 930
Release 1990
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780393027990

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W. W. Norton is pleased to announce that The Norton Book of Nature Writing is now available in a paperback college edition.

Journal of Ethnobiology

Journal of Ethnobiology
Title Journal of Ethnobiology PDF eBook
Author
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Total Pages 240
Release 1984
Genre Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Sanctuary

Sanctuary
Title Sanctuary PDF eBook
Author
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Total Pages 632
Release 1995
Genre Agriculture
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American Desert

American Desert
Title American Desert PDF eBook
Author
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Total Pages 246
Release 1992
Genre Desert ecology
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American Nature Writers

American Nature Writers
Title American Nature Writers PDF eBook
Author John Elder
Publisher Gale Cengage
Total Pages 632
Release 1996
Genre American literature
ISBN 9780684196923

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The Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political contexts for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 16 sets comprising this series.The essays in the set combine biography, criticism, and in some cases, original interviews to tell the story of each author. This set includes 70 biographical/critical essays on such writers as Rachel Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Gary Snyder and 12 general subject essays.