Ellen Meloy

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1) Eating stone: imagination and the loss of the wild

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English

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An inspired reflection on the bond between wild creatures and the human imagination, told as a chronicle of four seasons with a band of rare desert bighorn sheep.

2) Seasons: desert sketches

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Series

Voices for the land

Publisher

Torrey House Press

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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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...

3) Raven's exile: a season on the Green River

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Publisher

H. Holt

Pub. Date

1995.

Physical Desc

x, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

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4) The anthropology of turquoise: meditations on landscape, art, and spirit

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Pantheon Books

Pub. Date

c2002

Physical Desc

x, 324 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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English

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The author meditates upon her life, travels, and nature, using the color turquoise as a metaphor for a way to make sense of the world.