{"title":"Ellen Meloy","description":"ELLEN MELOY, a recipient of a Whiting Foundation Award in 1997, was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her previous book, The Anthropology of Turquoise, 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 and The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest. 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.","products":[{"product_id":"the-anthropology-of-turquoise-reflections-on-desert-sea-stone-and-sky-pulitzer-prize-finalist-paperback","title":"The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. 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Meloy's wise and unexpected observations are a pure delight.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376708878559,"sku":"9781948814010","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lrcFJEAzVt9781948814010.webp?v=1789221750"},{"product_id":"eating-stone-imagination-and-the-loss-of-the-wild-paperback","title":"Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong 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, \u003ci\u003eEating Stone\u003c\/i\u003e is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376897425631,"sku":"9781400031771","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0jNaCGOoYM9781400031771.webp?v=1789228896"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ellen-meloy.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}