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Following the model of the medieval Latin bestiaries, Gregory McNamee has written a book at once naturalistic, folkloristic, and literary, made up of short essays on forty-three animals of the worlds deserts. These essays discuss the creatures as they are and as they are imagined, and bring their natural lives and histories vividly to the page.
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A Desert Bestiary : Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought From the World's Dry Places
author
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McNamee, Gregory.; Leggitt, Marjorie C.
publisher
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Johnson Books
isbn10 | asin
:
1555661769
print isbn13
:
9781555661762
ebook isbn13
:
9780585024998
language
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English
subject
Desert animals, Desert animals--Folklore, Animals in literature.
publication date
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1996
lcc
:
QL116.M4 1996eb
ddc
:
591.909/54
subject
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Desert animals, Desert animals--Folklore, Animals in literature.
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BOOKS BY GREGORY McNAMEE
NONFICTION
A Desert Bestiary In the Presence of Wolves (with Art Wolfe) Gila: The Life and Death of an American River The Return of Richard Nixon
FICTION
Christ on the Mount of Olives
POETRY
Inconstant History: Poems and Translations Philoktetes: A Verse Translation
COLLECTIONS
The Sierra Club Desert Reader: A Literary Companion Named in Stone and Sky: An Arizona Anthology Living in Words: Interviews from The Bloomsbury Review Resist Much, Obey Little: Some Notes on Edward Abbey (with James R. Hepworth)
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A Desert Bestiary
Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World's Dry Places
Gregory McNamee Illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt
Johnson Books Boulder
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Copyright 1996 by Gregory McNamee Illustrations 1996 by Marjorie C. Leggitt
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published in the United States by Johnson Books, a division of Johnson Publishing Company, 1880 South 57th Court, Boulder, Colorado 80301.
987654321
Front cover illustration by Marjorie C. Leggitt: Jackrabbit teaches Coyote a painful lesson in a Tohono O'odham story (see pgs. 89-91). Cover design by Bob Schram Front cover background art by Molly Gough
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McNamee, Gregory. A desert bestiary: folklore, literature, and ecological thought from the world's dry places / by Gregory McNamee. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55566-176-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Desert animals. 2. Desert animals-Folklore. 3. Animals in literature. I. Title. QL116.M4 199696-32856 591.909'54-dc20CIP
Printed in the United States by Johnson Printing 1880 South 57th Court Boulder, Colorado 80301
Printed on recycled paper with soy ink.
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for Melissa
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Do not divert your love from tangible things. Continue to love what is good, simple, and ordinary: animals and flowers. Keep the balance true. Rainer Maria Rilke
My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. Adrienne Rich
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