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  • Jesus for Farmers and Fishers

    Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century. Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us.Agrarian and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan--the "father of the local food movement"--offers a fresh, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water in the Desert

    A Pilgrimage

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    From acclaimed agrarian activist and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan, a profoundly inspiring account of interspecies belonging, collaborative conservation, and the sacred work of caring for the earth.“I went looking for water in the desert and found that the world was teaching me how to listen.”Celebrated as a “world visionary” (Utne Reader) and our “lyrical poet of biodiversity” (Mother Jones), ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agave Spirits

    The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals

    by Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., David Suro Piñera ...
    **Winner of the 2024 James Beard Foundation's Award for Beverage Writing without Recipes“A manifesto…[and] a positive spin on the future of mezcal.” —Florence Fabricant, New York TimesThe agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila.**All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Against the American Grain

    A Borderlands History of Resistance

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    A century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrants, preachers, and thought leaders who first shaped American culture. Since then, waves of resistance and disruptive innovation have flooded into the rest of America from the arid, southwestern margins of the US-Mexico borderlands.Now, in Against the American Grain, Gary Paul ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cumin, Camels, and Caravans

    A Spice Odyssey

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Series Book 45 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Gathering the Desert

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Winner of the John Burroughs Association’s John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library AssociationTo the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries and offers sustenance in its surprisingly wide range of plant life. Gary Paul Nabhan has combed the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Where Our Food Comes From

    Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Series series
    The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Food, Genes, and Culture

    Eating Right for Your Origins

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat.In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person could be disastrous for another. If your ancestors were herders in Northern Europe, milk might well ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Sonoran Desert Bestiary

    A More-than-Natural History

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    The Sonoran Desert has many marvelous and well-known creatures such as the javelina and the coyote, often found on postcards and lawn ornaments. But what about the lesser-known creatures—the ones that are underfoot yet unseen, that lurk only in the shadows and in our imaginations? In this collection of essays, prose poems, and illustrations, naturalist Gary Paul Nabhan and artist Robert J. Long ... Read more

    $22.59 CAD

  • Desert Terroir

    Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Series series Ellen and Edward Randall Series
    A culinary journey through the flavors of the southwestern borderlands from an agricultural ecologist and "natural storyteller" ( Times Literary Supplement).Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history—ecological, cultural, even personal—flavors every bite we eat. Whether it's the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stories and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enduring Seeds

    Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity while providing insights into traditional Native agricultural practices in the Americas.Gary Paul ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Desert Smells Like Rain

    A Naturalist in O'odham Country

    by Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people.In this work, Gary Paul Nabhan brings O’odham voices to the page at every turn. He writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD