Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan is a Lebanese American ecologist, agrarian activist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and bilingual essayist whose work focuses primarily on the arid binational Southwest. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and an Utne Reader’s annual visionary award, and he is the author of thirty-two books, beginning with The Desert Smells Like Rain. His most recent book is Agave Spirits. He resides in Patagonia, Arizona, and Desemboque del Sur, Sonora.
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Ethnobiology for the Future
Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan; Foreword by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnobiology is dedicated to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultures and practices on Earth. In this important new collection, MacArthur Fellow Gary Paul Nabhan lays out the case for the future of the field. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures call for an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
Counting Sheep
Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
The Nature of Desert Nature
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
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.
- Copyright year: 2020
Reinventing Nature?
Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction
Edited by Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease
Island Press
- Copyright year: 1995
Last Water on the Devil's Highway
A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas
By Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Mary Charlotte Thurtle
The University of Arizona Press
- Copyright year: 2013
At the Desert's Green Edge
An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.
Gathering the Desert
By Gary Paul Nabhan; Illustrated by Paul Mirocha
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing, Gathering the Desert profiles twelve edible wild plants found in the Sonoran Desert to demonstrate just how bountiful the land can be. Gary Paul Nabhan has combed the desert in search of plants forgotten by all but a handful of American Indians and Mexican Americans. Each chapter focuses on a particular plant and is accompanied by an original drawing by artist Paul Mirocha. Word and picture together create a total impression of plants and people as the book traces the turn of seasons in the desert.
Food, Genes, and Culture
Eating Right for Your Origins
Island Press
- Copyright year: 2013
Unnatural Landscapes
Tracking Invasive Species
By Ceiridwen Terrill; Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
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