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The Desert Smells Like Rain, A Naturalist in O'odham Country
by Gary Paul Nabhan
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 2002
- PAPER
- 148 PAGES
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An ethnobotany, natural history and portrait of the Tohono O'odam (or Papago) people of the desert southwest. A talented writer, Nabhan conveys the everyday life of a traditional desert people in this sympathetic, unsentimental book. Originally published in 1982, it includes a history of government land management practices in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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