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Lädt ... The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (2002)von Ellen Meloy
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is a purple prose mess of meandering thoughts and introspection, tossed with random unsupported claims. ( ) I really did love that book. It was amazing, poetical and a portrait of live. I went to the desert the first time this summer and fell in love. And then I found this book and it told all the things I thought. It was the first story I marked quotes in. "[...] not preachy holy, but instinct holy [...]" I so love this quote, it is now on the inside of my folder. The melancholy and hopefulness in this book is so beautiful, brining you to tears. I picked this up thinking it would be a micro-history of turquoise, and found that it was worlds more than that. A blend of nature lit and memoir and meditation, all distilled through a fierce love of one particular place on this big beautiful earth. I think it should only be read outdoors, or at least with a view toward outdoors, in a place that you love. Ellen looked at nature in a unique and inspiring way. Her knowledge, depth, and understanding are amazing. She used vivid description, full of allegory and metaphors, color and surprise, to give voice to plants, animals, boulders, and rivers, also to her thoughts and dreams, the miraculous and the impossible. Only parts of this book are about the desert Southwest, which is what I was interested in. Subject matter ranges widely from one chapter to the next, and sometimes she goes off on tangents that bewilder me. When she sticks to the subject at hand, whatever it is, she writes beautifully about it. When the writing takes off someplace else, it's either hold on or skip over. I did a lot of skipping over. There is some crossover from chapter to chapter, but best to consider this a book of individual essays loosely linked, land pick and choose the ones that interest you. That said, at her best she writes about the Southwest as well as anyone. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo "velvet grandmothers" whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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