Eating Stone
Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Written by Ellen Meloy

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3177-1 (1-4000-3177-X)

An inspired reflection on the bond between wild creatures and the human imagination, told as a chronicle of four seasons with a band of rare desert bighorn sheep.

Among the steep cliffs of Utah’s canyonlands a band of rare desert bighorn sheep simply vanished. Although the word “extinct” was bandied about, their... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70813-8 (0-375-70813-8)

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

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... Read more >