The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country

Author:   Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher:   University of Arizona Press
Edition:   Univ of Arizona Pbk ed.
ISBN:  

9780816522491


Pages:   148
Publication Date:   01 April 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher:   University of Arizona Press
Imprint:   University of Arizona Press
Edition:   Univ of Arizona Pbk ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.235kg
ISBN:  

9780816522491


ISBN 10:   0816522499
Pages:   148
Publication Date:   01 April 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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People often find science boring and ill written. Not in this book. Here the reader is lured into botany, ethnology, hydrology, and a couple of million acres by vivid writing, good pictures, and a beautifully produced book. . . . Anyone ignorant of the desert should begin their cure here. --Tucson Citizen The humor, spice, charm, insight, and compassion with which Gary Paul Nabhan weaves his tale make for enjoyable reading. --Rio Grande Sun Nabhan's point is that we transplanted desert dwellers have a great deal to learn from longtime, environmentally conscious inhabitants if we are not to destroy our fragile home. . . . A remarkably humane essay on nature and respect for it. --Bloomsbury Review The Desert Smells Like Rain offers a remarkable insight, sensitive but unsentimental, combining the sound perceptions of a scientist with ecological concerns, matching humor and a sense of human frailty with tentative hope for the future. --High Country News His eyes are those of a s


People often find science boring and ill written. Not in this book. Here the reader is lured into botany, ethnology, hydrology, and a couple of million acres by vivid writing, good pictures, and a beautifully produced book. . . . Anyone ignorant of the desert should begin their cure here. --Tucson Citizen The humor, spice, charm, insight, and compassion with which Gary Paul Nabhan weaves his tale make for enjoyable reading. --Rio Grande Sun Nabhan's point is that we transplanted desert dwellers have a great deal to learn from longtime, environmentally conscious inhabitants if we are not to destroy our fragile home. . . . A remarkably humane essay on nature and respect for it. --Bloomsbury Review The Desert Smells Like Rain offers a remarkable insight, sensitive but unsentimental, combining the sound perceptions of a scientist with ecological concerns, matching humor and a sense of human frailty with tentative hope for the future. --High Country News His eyes are those of a scientist, his prose and vision a poet's: spare, evocative, respectful of both facts and mysteries. --Orion Nature Quarterly


People often find science boring and ill written. Not in this book. Here the reader is lured into botany, ethnology, hydrology, and a couple of million acres by vivid writing, good pictures, and a beautifully produced book. . . . Anyone ignorant of the desert should begin their cure here. --Tucson Citizen The humor, spice, charm, insight, and compassion with which Gary Paul Nabhan weaves his tale make for enjoyable reading. --Rio Grande Sun Nabhan's point is that we transplanted desert dwellers have a great deal to learn from longtime, environmentally conscious inhabitants if we are not to destroy our fragile home. . . . A remarkably humane essay on nature and respect for it. --Bloomsbury Review The Desert Smells Like Rain offers a remarkable insight, sensitive but unsentimental, combining the sound perceptions of a scientist with ecological concerns, matching humor and a sense of human frailty with tentative hope for the future. --High Country News His eyes are those of a scientist, his prose and vision a poet's: spare, evocative, respectful of both facts and mysteries. --Orion Nature Quarterly


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A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, Gary Paul Nabhan is Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University.

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