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A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World's Dry Places
A Desert Bestiary Folklore Literature and Ecological Thought from the World's Dry Places Author:Gregory McNamee, Marjorie C. Leggitt (Illustrator) Following the model of the medieval Latin bestiaries, Gregory McNamee has written a book at once naturalistic, folkloristic, and literary, made up of short essays on forty-three animals of the world’s deserts. These essays discuss the creatures as they are and as they are imagined, and bring their natural lives and histories vividly to the... more » page.« less