Gary Paul Nabhan: 19 books
Mesquite
An Arboreal Love Affair
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls “arboreality.”
As a Franciscan brother and ethnobotanist who has often mixed mirth with earth, laughter with landscape,...
by Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2002
"Amazing and eloquent....Nabhan makes us understand how finding and eating local foods connects us deeply and sensually."—Alice Waters, Chez Panisse
Issuing a "profound and engaging...passionate call to us to re-think our food industry" (Jim Harrison, author of The Raw...
Desert Terroir
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history—ecological, cultural, even personal—flavors every bite we eat. Whether it’s the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stories and memories of places that are evoked by taste, layers...
Where Our Food Comes From
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines,...
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his...
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Winner of the John Burroughs Association’s John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries...
Enduring Seeds
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity...
by Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen L. Buchmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Consider this: Without interaction between animals and flowering plants, the seeds and fruits that make up nearly eighty percof the human diet would not exist.In The Forgotten Pollinators, Stephen L. Buchmann, one of the world's leading authorities on bees and pollination, and Gary Paul Nabhan, award-winning...
Food from the Radical Center
Healing Our Land and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
"Informational and inspirational."—Booklist
America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country's history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America's...
Food, Genes, and Culture
Eating Right for Your Origins
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat.
In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person...
The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land—a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate...
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity
Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to...
Reinventing Nature?
Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be "reinvented" through theme parks and malls, or through restoration?Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions...
Aux sources de notre nourriture
Nikolaï Vavilov et la découverte de la biodiversité
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Un passionnant voyage autour du monde aux sources de la biodiversité alimentaire. Hiver 1943. Le botaniste russe Nikolaï Vavilov meurt de faim en prison, victime des purges de Staline. Tragique destin pour un homme visionnaire qui a consacré sa vie à lutter contre la famine. Au cours de sa vie, Vavilov...
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