The Anthropology of Turquoise

The Anthropology of Turquoise
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000056166057
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Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Turquoise by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book The Anthropology of Turquoise written by Ellen Meloy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a swim across the Mojave, a harrowing error on a solo trip down a wild river, and a birthday party with wild sheep."--BOOK JACKET.

The Anthropology of Turquoise

The Anthropology of Turquoise
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Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004635315
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Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Turquoise by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book The Anthropology of Turquoise written by Ellen Meloy and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a swim across the Mojave, a harrowing error on a solo trip down a wild river, and a birthday party with wild sheep."--BOOK JACKET.

The Anthropology of Turquoise

The Anthropology of Turquoise
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780307481535
ISBN-13 : 0307481530
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Turquoise by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book The Anthropology of Turquoise written by Ellen Meloy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo “velvet grandmothers” whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.

The Anthropology of Turquoise

The Anthropology of Turquoise
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780375708138
ISBN-13 : 0375708138
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Turquoise by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book The Anthropology of Turquoise written by Ellen Meloy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo “velvet grandmothers” whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.

Eating Stone

Eating Stone
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307484147
ISBN-13 : 0307484149
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Eating Stone by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book Eating Stone written by Ellen Meloy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing severance of man from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.

Raven's Exile

Raven's Exile
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0816522936
ISBN-13 : 9780816522934
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Raven's Exile by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book Raven's Exile written by Ellen Meloy and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century after John Wesley Powelllaunched his boat on the Green River, Ellen Meloy spent eight years of seasonal floats through Utah's Desolation Canyon with her husband, a federal river ranger. She came to know the history and natural history of this place well enough to call it home, and has recorded her observations in a book that is as wide-ranging as the river and as wild as the wilderness through which it runs.

Seasons

Seasons
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Publisher : Torrey House Press
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 9781948814027
ISBN-13 : 1948814021
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Seasons by : Ellen Meloy

Download or read book Seasons written by Ellen Meloy and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sharp as the needles on a pinyon pine, these essays will make you rethink your view of the American West. Meloy's wise and unexpected observations are a pure delight." —MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, readers will delight in her signature wit and charm—and feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends. With a foreword by Annie Proulx. ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her book The Anthropology of Turquoise (2002) 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 (1994), The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (2001), and Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (2005). 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.