Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

ellen meloy

Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing severance of man from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.

Genres naturenonfictionanimalssciencenatural historyecologyenvironmenttravelmemoirscience nature

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 13,2005

Literary awards

john burroughs medal, utah book award, national book critics circle award,

This edition

Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Published: October 17, 2006 by Vintage
ISBN: 9781400031771
ASIN: 140003177X
Language: English

About the author

ellen meloy

Ellen Meloy was an American nature writer. Among the awards she garnered are the Whiting Writer's Award (1997) and the John Burroughs Medal (2007); in 2003 she was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit.