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Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists...
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
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 botani...
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Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil...
Consider this: Without interaction between animals and flowering plants, the seeds and fruits that make up nearly eighty percent of the human diet wou...
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
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 lear...
The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
Gary Paul Nabhan shares what he learned after spending a year eating only foods that were grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his h...
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new ...
Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Do your ears burn whenever you eat hot chile peppers? Does your face immediately flush when you drink alcohol? Does your stomach groan if you are expo...
Buchmann and Nabhan combine vignettes from the field with expository discussions of ecology, botany, and crop science to present a lively and fascinat...
The Marriage of Science and Poetry
A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollinatio...
A Spice Odyssey
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 sp...
Eating Right for Your Origins
"In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person could be disastrous for another. If your an...
An Arboreal Love Affair
Winner of a 2019 Southwest Book Award (BRLA) An homage to the useful and idiosyncratic mesquite tree In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan em...
Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail
Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the chile pepper-fro...
A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odh...
Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the ...
A Guide to in Situ Management
Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive ...
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
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 anim...
An American Naturalist in Italy
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST TELLS OF HIS TRAVELS IN ITALY AS HE WALKED THE FRANCISCAN WAY TO "READ" THE TUSCAN AND UMBRIAN LANDSCAPE....
With the dual aim of facilitating better management of protected areas and illustrating innovative approaches to the conservation of plant resources w...
A Natural and Cultural History
This comprehensive guide to tequila's varieties, production and history shares marks of distinction for connoisseurs and highlights the link between a...
A Borderlands History of Resistance
A century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrants, preachers, and thought le...
Photographs of Sonora, Mexico
For the last quarter century, David Burckhalter has photographed the diverse peoples, cultures, and landscapes of Sonora, Mexico. These fifty-two blac...
This manual elaborates in situ (on-site) approach to useful plant conservation. The manual has two goals: first, to facilitate better management of pr...
A Gastronomic Journey Into the Fragrances and Flavors of Desert Cuisines
Explore mouth-watering recipes from the most vibrant and diverse culinary traditions of the hottest and driest places on earth—including the aromati...
“A manifesto…[and] a positive spin on the future of mezcal.” —Florence Fabricant, New York Times The agave plant was never destined to become ...
Why Children Need Wild Places
"In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ...
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands
A culinary journey through the flavors of the southwestern borderlands from an agricultural ecologist and “natural storyteller” (Times Literary Su...
A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas
The DevilÕs HighwayÑEl Camino del DiabloÑcrosses hundreds of miles and thousands of years of Arizona and Southwest history. This heritage trail fol...
The Comcáac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles
Through stories, songs, photographs, illustrations of Comcaac arts, and discussions of Sonoran ecology, Nabhan demonstrates the irreplaceable value of...
A Lizard's Life Among the Seri Indians
Famed ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan learns the deeper meanings of ecology from Amalia Astorga, a Seri Indian....
A Legacy of Lost Biodiversity on the Colorado Plateau
"In recent years, the American West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventat...
A View of Saguaro National Monument & the Tucson Basin
Heritage farming is using time-tried successes of the past in order to grow food that is good for the consumer and good for the farmer. Small-scale fa...
Areographic Techniques for Targeting and Conserving Species Diversity
Re-storying the Sonoran Borderlands
Moving parables and beautiful photographs of the Sonoran Desert on the Mexico-United States border demonstrate and evoke the life that thrives in this...
Aflorisms, Poems and Prayers for Seeds
Poetry and Photographs inspired by Seeds....