{"product_id":"eating-stone-imagination-and-the-loss-of-the-wild-9780375422164","title":"Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn inspired reflection on the bond between wild creatures and the human imagination  told as a chronicle of four seasons with a band of rare desert bighorn sheep.  Among the steep cliffs of Utahs canyonlands a band of rare desert bighorn sheep simply vanished. Although the word extinct was bandied about  their passing seemed to fit the downward spiral of native wildlife in the Southwest that began in the early twentieth century. Remote  isolated  and elusive  this band slipped through the cracks. The bighorns were gone. Then they came back.  We have allowed ourselves few places and scant ways to witness other species in their own world  Ellen Meloy writes  an estrangement that has left us lonely and spiritually hungry. Now  with generous empathy and wry humor  the award-winning author of The Anthropology of Turquoise describes the mystery of the bighorns self-rescue. In the role of an amiable  nosy neighbor  Meloy matches her seasonal geography to theirs  observing cycles of breeding and birth  predators and death  the exquisite match of animal to place  of blood and bone to a magnificent redrock canyon.  On backcountry hikes  downriver floats  and travels to Mexico  the Great Basin  and the Chihuahuan Desert  Meloy roams the rugged habitat of these intriguing and precarious natives. Throughout  we revel with her in the air  light  and dazzling colors of the high desert. Most of all  we come to understand why she finds that watching wild animals intensely is very much like prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67898786611253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375422161","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375422164.jpg?v=1793784606","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/eating-stone-imagination-and-the-loss-of-the-wild-9780375422164","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}