Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Ellen Meloy
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9780307484147
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Wildlife conservationBighorn sheepHuman-nature relationship
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2005)
Other awarded books from Ellen Meloy
- The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
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