The anthropology of turquoise : reflections on desert, sea, stone, and sky
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The anthropology of turquoise : reflections on desert, sea, stone, and sky
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- The anthropology of turquoise : reflections on desert, sea, stone, and sky
- Title remainder
- reflections on desert, sea, stone, and sky
- Statement of responsibility
- Ellen Meloy
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biography
- Meloy, Ellen
- Meloy, Ellen
- Meloy, Ellen -- Travel -- West (U. S.)
- Natural history
- Natural history -- West (U.S.)
- Travel
- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
- Biographies
- Wilderness areas
- Wilderness areas -- West (U.S.)
- Women artists
- Women artists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Women authors, American
- Women authors, American -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Women naturalists
- Women naturalists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- West United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this invigorating mix of memoir, natural history, and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to illuminate our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo "velvet grandmothers" whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, and to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our natural surroundings. -- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- BKL
- Dewey number
- 917.9043
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F595.3
- LC item number
- .M45 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
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