Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing severance of man from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and p...

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,...

From the award-winning author Eating Stone . "A painful juxtaposition of natural beauty and warrior wastelands." — The New York Times Book ReviewFeeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her "Map of the Known Universe," devised to...

Questa è una raccolta di saggi che esplora il rapporto spirituale, emotivo e biologico fra l’uomo e i colori, il modo in cui questi hanno plasmato l’umanità e come è cambiato il nostro impatto sul pianeta mentre questo legame si logorava nel tempo. Dalle piscine della California al deserto del Mojave, dai canyon dello Utah alle coste dello Yucatan fino a immergersi nelle limpide acque che circondano le Bahamas, Ellen Meloy, scrittrice naturalista – che con questo libro è stata finalista al...

Writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy and photographer Stephen Strom met in the fall of 2004 and began planning a collaborative book of images and prose expressing their shared love of the desert. Two months later, Meloy died suddenly at her home in southern Utah. Over the years to follow, Strom called on Meloy's writing to put his new photographs to words. The collaboration seemed to deepen over time, and it comes to fruition in This Desert Hides Nothing.

**"Sharp as the needles on a pinyon pine, these essays will make you rethink your view of the American West. Meloy's wise and unexpected observations are a pure delight."—MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNEThe late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays** for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sh...