Title: The Nature of Desert Nature: Meditations on the Nature of DesertsAuthor: Gary Paul Nabhan
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My Review: Gary Paul Nabhan is an amazing author and great ambassador for the desert. I enjoyed how this book combines science and poetry in describing the nature of deserts. Growing up in Southern California gave me lots of opportunities to explore and enjoy different deserts including Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basin deserts. This book awakened many fond memories of those times and has given me some new perspectives on the nature of desert nature.
Description (Audible): In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called "The Nature of Desert Nature" reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads.
Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions.
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.
