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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
Ellen Meloy
Meloy's essays about color, landscape, and the sensory experience of being alive in the desert. The turquoise is literal — the stone, the water, the sky — and metaphorical. Nobody wrote about the desert's palette like Meloy.
desert
geology
Ocean & Coast
Essays
American Southwest
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Publisher
Vintage
Published
2003
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