Eating Stone : Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (Paperback)

from dele2451

Well worth the extra weight in your desert backpack. A beautiful tribute to one of the desert's most ancient and magnificent beasts.

from co_coyote

If I were talented, and didn't have to work for a living, this is the kind of book I would write. It is my kind of book. Some of these paragraphs are absolute magic. Ellen Meloy has been living in the desert Southwest for a long time, and for much of that time she has been watching big-horn sheep...

from stephensepe

A book that endorses the rights of animals and the legitimacy of their lives. Really a wonderful book.

from breic

I wanted to like this. The subject, bighorn sheep in the Southwest, is interesting to me, and I want to learn more about them. I love good nature writing. But while a lot of the writing is good, a fair amount isn't. Some of the imagery is jarring (e.g., mesas scudding under the clouds instead of ...

from dele2451

Well worth the extra weight in your desert backpack. A beautiful tribute to one of the desert's most ancient and magnificent beasts.