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35 produkter
Water in the Desert
A Pilgrimage
Inbunden, 2026
272 kr
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An NPR Most Anticipated Book of the Summer"A generous invitation to follow the many streams that flow into the river of Gary Paul Nabhan’s remarkable life and work."—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass"I have waited decades for these epic tales to be gathered in one serpentine …
Desert Terroir
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands
Inbunden, 2012
287 kr
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Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history-ecological, cultural, even personal-flavors every bite we eat. Whether it’s the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stories and memories of places that are evoked by taste, layers of …
Agave Spirits
The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals
Av Gary Paul Nabhan, David Suro Piñera
Inbunden, 2023
300 kr
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The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. Follow Gary Nabhan and David Suro Piñera on the trail with archaeologists and botanists to caves where 9,000-year-old remains of agaves have been found, and then fast track to the 1990s, the peak of the “margarita craze,” before …
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
Inbunden, 2014
264 kr
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Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his …
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
Häftad, 2020
221 kr
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Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his …
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
E-bok, 2014
276 kr
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Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his …
Counting Sheep
Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn
Av Gary Paul Nabhan, Gary Paul Nabhan
Häftad, 1993
304 kr
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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 vis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarron—and have them write about it. Have them write from …
Tequila
A Natural and Cultural History
Av Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata, Gary Paul Nabhan
Häftad, 2004
283 kr
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The array of bottles is impressive, their contents finely tuned to varied tastes. But they all share the same roots in Mesoamerica's natural bounty and human culture. The drink is tequila more properly, mescal de tequila, the first mescal to be codified and recognized by its geographic origin and …
Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'Odham Country
Häftad, 2002
230 kr
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Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the …
Enduring Seeds
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
Häftad, 2002
273 kr
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As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant …
Nature of Desert Nature
Häftad, 2020
249 kr
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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 'The Nature of Desert Nature' reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He …
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America
Häftad, 2020
329 kr
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When migrating birds and other creatures move along a path of plant communities in bloom, they follow what has come to be known as a nectar trail. Should any of these plants be eliminated from the sequence—whether through habitat destruction, pests, or even aberrant weather—the movement of these …
Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
Häftad, 2022
260 kr
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Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people.In this work, Gary Paul Nabhan brings O’odham voices to the page at …
Sonoran Desert Bestiary
A More-than-Natural History
Häftad, 2026
206 kr
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The Sonoran Desert has many marvelous and well-known creatures such as the javelina and the coyote, often found on postcards and lawn ornaments. But what about the lesser-known creatures—the ones that are underfoot yet unseen, that lurk only in the shadows and in our imaginations? In this …
Against the American Grain
A Borderlands History of Resistance
Inbunden, 2024
304 kr
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In Against the American Grain , Gary Paul Nabhan—cultural ecologist, environmental historian, Franciscan Brother, and lyrical poet of the American Southwest—has illuminated the outlines of a history too long in the shadows. Whether they were Indigenous, LatinX, Catholic priests and nuns, Quakers, …
Against the American Grain
A Borderlands History of Resistance
Häftad, 2025
230 kr
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New in paper, James Beard Award winning Nabhan ( Agave Spirits ) creative revolutionaries from the southwest border who change American culture in countless positive ways. A celebration of the artists, activists, and writers who are not Anglo-centric. A century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the …
People, Plants and Protected Areas
A Guide to in Situ Management
Av Michael Hathaway, with Elizabeth Drexler m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
949 kr
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Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and conservation of plant resources. The …
People, Plants and Protected Areas
A Guide to in Situ Management
Av Michael Hathaway, with Elizabeth Drexler m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
949 kr
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Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and conservation of plant resources. The …
People, Plants and Protected Areas
A Guide to in Situ Management
Av John Tuxill, Gary Paul Nabhan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3080 kr
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Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and conservation of plant resources. The …
Agave Spirits
The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals
Av Gary Paul Nabhan, David Suro Piñera
Häftad, 2024
189 kr
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The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. Follow Gary Nabhan and David Suro Pinera on the trail with archaeologists and botanists to caves where 9,000-year-old remains of agaves have been found, and then fast track to the 1990s, the peak of the “margarita craze”, before …
Jesus for Farmers and Fishers
Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
Inbunden, 2021
197 kr
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Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century. Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us. …
Cross-Pollinations
The Marriage of Science and Poetry
Häftad, 2004
200 kr
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Cross-Pollinations is a book about dissolving boundaries and blending disciplines to reveal a world rich in possibility, one where unthinkable solutions emerge.Gary Paul Nabhan, an accomplished biologist and writer—and “a voice that speaks to the laity in clear and coherent sentences” (New York …
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
Häftad, 2013
391 kr
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How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversityBecause climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more …
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
E-bok, 2013
334 kr
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How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more …
Where Our Food Comes From
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, …
Food, Genes, and Culture
Eating Right for Your Origins
Häftad, 2013
300 kr
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Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat. In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person …
Food from the Radical Center
Healing Our Land and Communities
Inbunden, 2018
266 kr
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America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements inour country’s history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America's naturalwealth: its ability to produce healthy foods.In Food …
Chile, Clove, and Cardamom
A Gastronomic Journey Into the Fragrances and Flavors of Desert Cuisines
Av Beth Dooley, Gary Paul Nabhan
Häftad, 2024
332 kr
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Explore mouth-watering recipes from the most vibrant and diverse culinary traditions of the hottest and driest places on earth – including the aromatic dishes and arid-adapted traditions from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and the deserts shared by the US and Mexico.Chile, Clove, and …
Chile, Clove, and Cardamom
A Gastronomic Journey Into the Fragrances and Flavors of Desert Cuisines
Av Gary Paul Nabhan, Beth Dooley
E-bok, 2024
401 kr
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Explore mouth-watering recipes from the most vibrant and diverse culinary traditions of the hottest and driest places on earth—including the aromatic dishes and arid-adapted traditions from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the deserts shared by the US and Mexico—compiled by two …
