Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Meloy, Ellen |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 7/8/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist EllenMeloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound humanattachment to landscape.
From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the YucatanPeninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyonsof the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoiseseas, and even motel swimming introduces us to Navajo “velvet grandmothers”whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well asto Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof , Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprisesin all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.
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