Mesquite : An Arboreal Love Affair
Mesquite : An Arboreal Love Affair
ISBN: 9781603589857
Publication Date: 3 June 2020
Winner of a 2019 Southwest Book Award (BRLA)
An homage to the useful and idiosyncratic mesquite tree
In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls "arboreality."
As a Franciscan brother and ethnobotanist who has often mixed mirth with earth, laughter with landscape, food with frolic, Nabhan now takes on a large, many-branched question: What does it means to be a tree, or, accordingly, to be in a deep and intimate relationship with one?
To answer this question, Nabhan does not disappear into a forest but exposes himself to some of the most austere hyper-arid terrain on the planet-the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts along the U...
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