Description
After reading the stories of Maria de Agreda, Joaquin Murrieta, Teresita de Cabora, Coyote Iguana, Woody Guthrie, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, John Steinbeck, and others, we can never think about America in the same way. In Nabhan's magisterial, radical recounting, cross-cultural collaborations have changed the grain of American life to one that is many-colored, flourishing with fragrance, faith, and fecund ideas.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"Gary Paul Nabhan places the desert at the center of the ongoing struggle against colonialism, racism, and capitalism."-Catherine Keyser, author of Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions
"From this gallery of visionaries, rogues, dissidents, authors, and naturalists, a new American mythos begins to emerge."-Thomas Hallock, author of Happy Neighborhood: Essays and Poems
Book Information
ISBN 9780826366979
Author Gary Paul Nabhan
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint University of New Mexico Press
Publisher University of New Mexico Press