Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

ISBN-13:	9781400031771
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/17/2006
Edition description:	Reprinted Edition
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	289,707
Product dimensions:	5.23(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.79(d)

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 perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.