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(0)Ellen Meloy
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Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. [This book] is a compilation of these essays, transcribed...
Author
Publisher
Torry House Press
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
73 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy and photographer Stephen Strom met in the fall of 2004 and began planning a collaborative book of images and prose expressing their shared love of the desert. Two months later, Meloy died suddenly at her home in southern Utah. Over the years to follow, Strom called on Meloy's writing to put his new photographs to words. The collaboration seemed to deepen over time, and it comes to fruition in This Desert Hides Nothing....
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An anthology celebrates being outdoors in the wild lands of the US Southwest. The book is divided into sections: introductory essays on why we need wilderness, followed by accounts of visits to historical sites, mountain hikes and climbs, canyons and deserts, running rivers, solo treks, animal encounters, and a closing section on giving back to public lands.