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Gathering the Desert
by Gary Paul Nabhan
- NATURAL HISTORY
- 1985
- PAPER
- 209 PAGES
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An ecologist with a particular interest in the origins of foodstuffs, Nabhan interweaves ethnography, biochemistry, natural history and journalism to document traditional uses of 12 Sonoran desert plants: the creosote bush, palm, mescal, sandfood, organpipe cactus, amaranth, tepary bean, chile, devil's claw, panicgrass, and wild gourds.
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