The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Meloy, Ellen

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375708138)

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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Meloy, Ellen

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

$17.95
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Meloy, Ellen

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.

From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan 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 both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo "velvet grandmothers" whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as 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 visual surroundings.

Author: Ellen Meloy
ISBN-10: 0375708138
ISBN-13: 9780375708138
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2003
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.14w x 0.77d
Award: Utah Book Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 11/01/2003 pg. 30
By Ellen Meloy
By Ellen Meloy
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ELLEN MELOY, a recipient of a Whiting Foundation Award in 1997, was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her previous book, The Anthropology of Turquoise, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award in the adventure and travel category. She is also the author of Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River and The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest. Meloy spent most of her life in wild, remote places; at the time of her sudden death in November 2004 (three months after completing Eating Stone), she and her husband were living in southern Utah.

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