Kirkus (starred review) Combine the best of travel writing with fascinating slices of history in an irresistible invitation to open our eyes and our minds, taking beauty where we find it.
Santa Fe New Mexican Smart, evocative, and memorable: Nature-writing done right. the talented Meloy is a Southwestern voice to listen to.
Salt Lake Tribune Amusing and intelligent. The Anthropology of Turquoise explores Meloys beloved Southwest-a region she knows intimately and describes with her trademark sharp wit. Booklist crafts potent meditations on the desert landscape. The Times-Picayune Finely crafted, vigorously descriptive, dazzling in its insights into biology and culture. The Washington Post By the time you lift your eyes from the last page, youll be longing to clasp a piece of stone, to be surrounded by blue water. Los Angeles Times Meloys vision of the world through turquoise-colored glasses is a unique, moving, self-effacing delight. Meloys gem-studded collection calls us to be mindful of the physical world, to see it-really see it-with fresh eyes.
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. 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. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. 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. Book Synopsis 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.
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