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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

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.

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

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

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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, Gary Paul Nabhan and Thomas E. Sheridan

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

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.

Canyons of Color: Utahs Slickrock Wildlands

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (photographer) 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

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

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.

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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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.

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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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

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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

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

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.

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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

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