The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
Author(s): Meloy Ellen
Integrating elements of memoir, adventure, and natural history, the author of Raven's Exile explores the mysteries of the natural world, using turquoise, both the colour and the gem, as a metaphor, journeying to a rich variety of canyons, deserts, seas, and mountains and plants and animals.
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Ellen Meloy received a Whiting Foundation Award in 1997. Her book Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River won a 1995 Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. She is also the author of The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest." "Her essays have appeared in "Orion" and "Northern Lights," among other publications, and have been widely anthologized. She lives in southern Utah.
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- : United Book Distributors
- : United Book Distributors
- : 08 July 2003
- : books
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- : Meloy Ellen
- : Paperback