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Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn Paperback - 1993

by Gary Paul Nabhan (Editor)

This unusual anthology demonstrates the range of possibilities in nature writing with contributions from Charles Bowden, Julian Hayden, Danny Lopez, Charles Sheldon, Ann Zwinger, and others". Essential reading for naturalists and conservationists. Highly recommended".--Library Journal.


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Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them to focus their attention on just one animal--Ovis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarrn--and have them write about it. Have them write from makeshift blinds or from behind a gun barrel. Have them write while walking across the Cabeza Prieta at night, or while flying over it trying to radio-collar the creatures. Have them write from actual sightings of the animals or simply from their tracks and droppings. What would result from such an exercise is Counting Sheep, an unusual anthology that demonstrates the range of possibilities in nature writing. While ostensibly a collection of writings about these desert sheep that live along the U.S.-Mexico border, it also represents an attempt to broaden the scope of the natural history essay. Writers trained in a wide range of disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences here offer a similarly diverse collection of writings, with women's, Hispanic, and Native American views complementing those in a genre long dominated by Anglo men. The four sections of the anthology comprise pre-Anglo-American tradition, examples of early nature writing, varied responses by modern writers to actually counting sheep, and a selection of essays that place bighorns in the context of the larger world. Counting Sheep celebrates the diversity of cultural responses to this single animal species in its Sonoran Desert habitat and invites readers to change the way in which they view their relationship to wild creatures everywhere. It also shows how nature writers can delight us all by the varied ways in which they practice their craft. Contributors:
Charles Bowden
David E. Brown
Bill Broyles
Julian Hayden
William T. Hornaday
Paul Krausman
Danny Lopez
Eric Mellink
Mauricio Mixco
Gale Monson
Gary Paul Nabhan
Doug Peacock
Kermit Roosevelt
Harley G. Shaw
Charles Sheldon
Peter Steinhart
Anita Alvarez de Williams
Terry Tempest Williams
Ann Zwinger

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Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them to focus their attention on just one animal Ovis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarrA3n and have them write about it. Have them write from makeshift blinds or from behind a gun barrel. Have them write while walking across the Cabeza Prieta at night, or while flying over it trying to radio-collar the creatures. Have them write from actual sightings of the animals or simply from their tracks and droppings. What would result from such an exercise is "Counting Sheep," an unusual anthology that demonstrates the range of possibilities in nature writing. While ostensibly a collection of writings about these desert sheep that live along the U.S.-Mexico border, it also represents an attempt to broaden the scope of the natural history essay. Writers trained in a wide range of disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences here offer a similarly diverse collection of writings, with women's, Hispanic, and Native American views complementing those in a genre long dominated by Anglo men. The four sections of the anthology comprise pre-Anglo-American tradition, examples of early nature writing, varied responses by modern writers to actually counting sheep, and a selection of essays that place bighorns in the context of the larger world. "Counting Sheep" celebrates the diversity of cultural responses to this single animal species in its Sonoran Desert habitat and invites readers to change the way in which they view their relationship to wild creatures everywhere. It also shows how nature writers can delight us all by the varied ways in whichthey practice their craft.
Contributors: Charles Bowden
David E. BrownBill Broyles
Julian HaydenWilliam T. Hornaday
Paul KrausmanDanny Lopez
Eric MellinkMauricio Mixco
Gale MonsonGary Paul Nabhan
Doug PeacockKermit Roosevelt
Harley G. ShawCharles Sheldon
Peter SteinhartAnita Alvarez de Williams
Terry Tempest WilliamsAnn Zwinger

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  • Title Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn
  • Author Gary Paul Nabhan (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
  • Date August 1993
  • ISBN 9780816513987 / 0816513988
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.16 x 0.83 in (23.27 x 15.65 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Arizona
  • Library of Congress subjects Bighorn sheep, Bighorn sheep hunting
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93012477
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.735

About the author

A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, Gary Paul Nabhan is Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University.
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