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Water in the desert : a pilgrimage / Gary Paul Nabhan.
Penn Museum Library GN21.N33 A3 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabhan, Gary Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabhan, Gary Paul.
- Ethnobotanists--United States--Biography.
- Ethnobotanists.
- Lebanese Americans--Biography.
- Lebanese Americans.
- Genre:
- Memoirs.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2026.
- Summary:
- "As a Lebanese-American boy growing up in the dunes along Lake Michigan's southern shore, where school is excruciating and symptoms of neurodivergence are diagnosed as disabilities, Nabhan finds refuge and revelation in the natural world. In college, he gravitates to the thinkers now associated with the dawn of ecology as a discipline, writes poetry, and travels to Ecuador and Sonora, Mexico, where he first encounters the Indigenous communities that will come to play a significant role in his life and work. His interest in earth-based spiritual practices leads him to take vows as an Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, which reminds him that "the earth itself--creation, for that matter--was the original scripture." Late in life, he returns to the land of his Arab ancestors, where he discovers a vision of kinship and climate resilience grounded in faith and ecology. And finally, when construction of the southern border wall begins, he collaborates with religious leaders to affirm Indigenous rights to the sacred places threatened by construction."-- Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Interplay
- Against the current
- Gestation
- Resistance
- Gandy dancing
- A walk on the wild side
- Watersheds
- Desert dreams
- Diving in
- Symbioses
- Brewtown
- Interbeing
- Ojos de agua
- Regeneration
- Manna in the desert
- Ironwood
- Paraecologos
- Walking prayer
- Convergences
- Sacred lexicon
- Tortugas
- Disappearing oases
- A wing and a prayer
- Quitobaquito
- Restoring coastlines
- Synesthesia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781571311696
- 1571311696
- OCLC:
- 1568239647
- Publisher Number:
- 90104832239
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