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Counting Sheep - Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn (Paperback)
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Counting Sheep - Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn (Paperback)
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Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same
unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them
to focus their attention on just one animal--Ovis canadensis,
popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarron--and have
them write about it. Have them write from makeshift blinds or from
behind a gun barrel. Have them write while walking across the
Cabeza Prieta at night, or while flying over it trying to
radio-collar the creatures. Have them write from actual sightings
of the animals or simply from their tracks and droppings. What
would result from such an exercise is "Counting Sheep, " an unusual
anthology that demonstrates the range of possibilities in nature
writing. While ostensibly a collection of writings about these
desert sheep that live along the U.S.-Mexico border, it also
represents an attempt to broaden the scope of the natural history
essay. Writers trained in a wide range of disciplines spanning the
natural and social sciences here offer a similarly diverse
collection of writings, with women's, Hispanic, and Native American
views complementing those in a genre long dominated by Anglo men.
The four sections of the anthology comprise pre-Anglo-American
tradition, examples of early nature writing, varied responses by
modern writers to actually counting sheep, and a selection of
essays that place bighorns in the context of the larger world.
"Counting Sheep" celebrates the diversity of cultural responses to
this single animal species in its Sonoran Desert habitat and
invites readers to change the way in which they view their
relationship to wild creatures everywhere. It also shows how nature
writers can delight us all by the varied ways in which they
practice their craft.
Contributors:
Charles Bowden
David E. Brown
Bill Broyles
Julian Hayden
William T. Hornaday
Paul Krausman
Danny Lopez
Eric Mellink
Mauricio Mixco
Gale Monson
Gary Paul Nabhan
Doug Peacock
Kermit Roosevelt
Harley G. Shaw
Charles Sheldon
Peter Steinhart
Anita Alvarez de Williams
Terry Tempest Williams
Ann Zwinger
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