Gary Nabhan - Literacy Volunteers Book Festival

4^th ANNUAL NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL

Gary Nabhan
Flagstaff, Arizona

Gary Nabhan has written extensively about the cactus forests, mesquite grasslands, and hidden oases of the Sonoran Desert. His work integrates conservation biology, agro-ecology, ethnonutrition, and applied anthropology in unique and unforeseen ways. He is a co-founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH – a grassroots multicultural conservation group – he has served as Director of Science at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, and currently at NAU’s Center for Sustainable Environments. He is a resipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pew Scholarship, the Premio Daia, and the John Burroughs Medal.

Book List

Coming Home to Eat: The Sensual Pleasures and Global Politics of Local Foods (August 2001), $23.95, Hardcover, WW. Norton & Company, ISBN: 0393020177 – available in August.

Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story (1998), $15.00, Paperback, Counterpoint Press, ISBN: 1887178961 – currently not available.

The Forgotten Pollinators, (1997), $16.95, Paperback, Island Press, ISBN: 1559633530 – available. (1996), $27.50, Hardcover, Island Press, ISBN: 1559633522 – available.

At the Desert’s Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima (1997), $60.00, Hardcover, University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 0816515409 – available.

The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places (1995), $14.00, Paperback, Beacon Pr, ISBN: 0807085251 – available.

The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country (1987), $13.00, Paperback, North Point Press, ISBN: 0865470502 – available.

Gathering the Desert (1987), $19.95, Paperback, University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 0816510148 – available.

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