Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild - Paperback

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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild - Paperback

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild - Paperback

by Ellen Meloy
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781400031771
Author Ellen Meloy
PublisherVintage
GenreHobbies & interests and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild - Paperback

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild - Paperback

By Ellen Meloy

About Ellen Meloy

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.

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