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Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country

An ethnobiologist examines the world of the Papago Indians of Arizona and Mexico, drawing attention to the role of the desert and desert ecology in Papago Indian agriculture, culture and mythology

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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Hardcover:

9780865470491 | North Point Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An ethnobiologist examines the world of the Papago Indians of Arizona and Mexico, drawing attention to the role of the desert and desert ecology in Papago Indian agriculture, culture, and mythology

Paperback:

9780865470507, titled "The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country" | North Point Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An ethnobiologist examines the world of the Papago Indians of Arizona and Mexico, drawing attention to the role of the desert and desert ecology in Papago Indian agriculture, culture and mythology

Gathering the Desert.

Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780816509355, titled "Gathering the Desert" | Univ of Arizona Pr, October 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries and offers sustenance in its surprisingly wide range of plant life.

Paperback:

9780816510146 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, January 1, 1987), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

Saguaro: A View of Saguaro National Monument and the Tucson Basin

Product Description: Saguaro: A View Of Saguaro National Monument & The Tucson Basin, by Nabhan, Gary Paul

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780911408690 | Western Natl Parks Assoc, September 1, 1986, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Saguaro: A View Of Saguaro National Monument & The Tucson Basin, by Nabhan, Gary Paul

Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780865473430 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions

Paperback:

9780816522590 | 1 edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $21.95

9780865473447 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions

The Desert Smells Like Rain

Product Description: Seven stories from two of Nabhan's books, The Desert Smells Like Rain and Gathering the Desert, provide insights into natural history and folklore of the desert. 2 cassettes.

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780939643301 | Audio Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Seven stories from two of Nabhan's books, The Desert Smells Like Rain and Gathering the Desert, provide insights into natural history and folklore of the desert.

Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy

As the author walks the Franciscan Way, nearly two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi, he absorbs the countryside through talking with the peasant farmers, truffle sellers, cooks, and bakers (view table of contents)

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780679415855 | Pantheon Books, July 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: As the author walks the Franciscan Way, nearly two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi, he absorbs the countryside through talking with the peasant farmers, truffle sellers, cooks, and bakers

Paperback:

9780140239720 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1994), cover price $16.00

Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn

Product Description: Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them to focus their attention on just one animal—Ovis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarrÃ³n—and have them write about it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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9780816513857 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert.

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9780816513987 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert.

Ironwood: An Ecological and Cultural Keystone of the Sonoran Desert

By John L. Carr (editor) and Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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9781881173076 | Conservation Intl, January 1, 1994, cover price $12.00

The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

Argues that children care deeply about the natural world, and explains how contact with nature influences child development (view table of contents)

By Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble

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9780807085240 | Beacon Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Argues that children care deeply about the natural world, and explains how contact with nature influences child development

Paperback:

9780807085257 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, April 30, 1995), cover price $23.00

Desert Legends: Re-Storying the Sonoran Borderlands

Moving parables and beautiful photographs of the Sonoran Desert on the Mexico-United States border demonstrate and evoke the life that thrives in this apparent wasteland, a place where plants, animals, and people live in true symbiosis.

By Mark Klett and Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780805031003 | Henry Holt & Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Parables and photographs demonstrate and evoke the life that thrives in this apparent wasteland, a place where plants, animals, and people live in true symbiosis

Canyons of Color: Utahs Slickrock Wildlands

By Jeff Garton (photographer), Gary Paul Nabhan and Caroline Wilson

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Hardcover:

9780062585714 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1995, cover price $37.50

Paperback:

9780062585608, titled "Canyons of Color: Utah's Slickrock Wildlands" | Harpercollins, May 1, 1995, cover price $25.00

The Forgotten Pollinators

Product Description: This work looks at the human impact on plants and the animals they depend upon for reproduction. As an increasing number of species are erased by pesticides or habitat disruption, 80 per cent of the human diet is threatened.

By Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781559633529 | Island Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Looks at the variety of ways in which plants are pollinated

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9781559633536 | Island Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: This work looks at the human impact on plants and the animals they depend upon for reproduction.

Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story

Product Description: One day while studying population maps with a colleague at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Nabhan recognized a surprising correlation between upheavals in human communities and the incidence of endangered species. Where massive in-migrations and exoduses were taking place, more plants and animals had become endangered...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781887178471 | Counterpoint, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays explores the impact of indigenous cultures with stable communities on the conservation of biological diversity in natural habitats

Paperback:

9781887178969 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, September 16, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One day while studying population maps with a colleague at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Nabhan recognized a surprising correlation between upheavals in human communities and the incidence of endangered species.

LA Vida Nortena: Photographs of Sonora, Mexico

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By David L. Burckhalter (photographer), Gary Paul Nabhan and Thomas E. Sheridan

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9780826318497 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $22.95

People, Plants and Protected Areas: A Guide to in Situ Management

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By Gary Paul Nabhan (editor) and John Tuxill (editor)

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9781853837821 | Routledge, May 1, 2001, cover price $59.95

Efrain of the Sonoran Desert: A Lizard's Life Among the Seri People

A Seri elder describes her special relationship with a sun-blotched lizard, giving the author insight into the Seri culture and their realtionship with their natural surroundings, including animals.

By Amalia Astorga, Janet K. Miller (illustrator) and Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780938317555 | 1 edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A Seri elder describes her special relationship with a sun-blotched lizard, giving the author insight into the Seri culture and their realtionship with their natural surroundings, including animals.

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods

Capturing the vital human relation to the foods that nourish us and the powerful bonds to family, community, landscape, and season, a prize-winning author and naturalist details his experiences of eating only foods grown, fished, or caught within two hundred miles of his home to define the phrase 'think globally, eat locally.' Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780393020175 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Details the author's experiences of eating only foods grown, fished, or caught within two hundred miles of his home to define the phrase 'think globally, eat locally.

Paperback:

9780393323740 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Capturing the vital human relation to the foods that nourish us and the powerful bonds to family, community, landscape, and season, a prize-winning author and naturalist details his experiences of eating only foods grown, fished, or caught within two hundred miles of his home to define the phrase 'think globally, eat locally.

The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country

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By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780816522491 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $19.95

Safeguarding the Uniqueness of the Colorado Plateau: An Ecoregional Assessment of Biocultural Diversity

Product Description: The Colorado Plateau is among the five most most biologically diverse regions of the 110 defined ecoregions in North America and is likely the most linguistically and agriculturally diverse region on the continent. This ecoregional assessment focuses on its unique biological and cultural resources, the threats to the region's astounding levels of biocultural diversity, and the possible means to safeguard or restore them...read more

By Tony Joe, Luisa Maffi, Gary Paul Nabhan and Patrick Pynes

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9780971878617 | Northern Arizona Dept of Creative, April 1, 2003, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Colorado Plateau is among the five most most biologically diverse regions of the 110 defined ecoregions in North America and is likely the most linguistically and agriculturally diverse region on the continent.

Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcaac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780520217317 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $85.00

Tequila!: A Natural and Cultural History

Product Description: The array of bottles is impressive, their contents finely tuned to varied tastes. But they all share the same roots in Mesoamerica's natural bounty and human culture. The drink is tequilaâmore properly, mescal de tequila, the first mescal to be codified and recognized by its geographic origin and the only one known internationally by that name...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan and Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela Zapata

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9780816519378 | Univ of Arizona Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The array of bottles is impressive, their contents finely tuned to varied tastes.

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9780816519385, titled "Tequila: A Natural and Cultural History" | Univ of Arizona Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.95

Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry

Product Description: In this book, Nabhan describes the circumstances of several of important--even breakthrough--discoveries that came about through the cross-pollination of science and the arts. His stories mix the personal and scientific in an engaging way...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781571312709 | 1 edition (Milkweed Editions, January 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author, a scientist, shares four stories of 'cross-pollination'--tales of his inspirations and movements as a researcher, a creative artist, and a citizen of the American Southwest.

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9781417672684 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: In this book, Nabhan describes the circumstances of several of important--even breakthrough--discoveries that came about through the cross-pollination of science and the arts.

Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America

Product Description: When migrating birds and other creatures move along a path of plant communities in bloom, they follow what has come to be known as a nectar trail. Should any of these plants be eliminated from the sequenceâwhether through habitat destruction, pests, or even aberrant weatherâthe movement of these pollinators may be interrupted and their very survival threatened...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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9780816522545 | Univ of Arizona Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When migrating birds and other creatures move along a path of plant communities in bloom, they follow what has come to be known as a nectar trail.

Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, And Cultural Diversity

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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Hardcover:

9781559634663 | Island Pr, August 10, 2004, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781597260916 | Island Pr, June 7, 2006, cover price $25.00

Woodlands In Crisis: A Legacy Of Lost Biodiversity On The Colorado Plateau

Product Description: In recent years, the West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before. This forest crisis has led to much controversy over the Healthy Forests legislation passed by Congress in 2003...read more

By Marcelle Coder, Zsuzsi I. Kovacs (contributor), Gary Paul Nabhan and Susan J. Smith

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9780971878662 | Northern Arizona Dept of Creative, September 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In recent years, the West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before.

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