The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
10 best books like The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Ellen Meloy): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, Obasan, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, The Secret Knowledge of Water, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir, The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos, Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 1571313354 |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0679740244 |
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0375725180 |
The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country...
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 0316608173 |
Put your tongue forcefully into the side of your cheek and keep it there while you read this book—just to remind yourself most of what you are reading is conjecture and poppycock. But—and here’s the important part—you’ll have a hell of a good read! As I went from one exploit to another, I kept...
| Author | Joy Kogawa |
| ISBN | 0385468865 |
The Government makes paper airplanes out of our lives and flies us out the windows. Some people return home. Some do not. War they all say, is war, and some people survive.
Out of all the countries in the world, Canada is the one I have most seriously considered for emigration purposes. The stereotypes...
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
| Author | Izzeldin Abuelaish |
| ISBN | 0802779174 |
By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation...
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 0316610690 |
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
| Author | Leslie Marmon Silko |
A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers.
Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world,...
| Author | Peggy Pond Church |
| ISBN | 0826302815 |
This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert...
Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 1948814188 |
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
| Author | Kate Harris |
| ISBN | 0345816781 |
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"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."
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