num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
titlecomplete: Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
genres: Environment, Ecology, Animals, Science, Travel, Natural History, Nature, Science Nature, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 653
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: John Burroughs Medal, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Utah Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage