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The Nature of Desert Nature

The Nature of Desert Nature

Nabhan, Gary Paul

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Series: Southwest Center

Letters & EssaysEnvironmental StudiesNature Writing

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ISBN10: 0816540284
ISBN13: 9780816540280
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called The Nature of Desert Nature reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads.

Nabhan invites a prism of voices--friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts--to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions.

The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places.

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