![]() Bedrock to soil to plant to milk to bone, muscle, and sinew. These sheep, both rams and ewes, suffered regular attacks from wild predators and wild-sheep diseases.Īfter she ate ram, Meloy wrote, "The taste of meat lingers on my tongue. While "The Anthropology of Turquoise" included a collection of stories about the Southwest and the Mojave Desert, "Eating Stone" is a record of four seasons Meloy spent with a group of about 80 desert bighorn sheep she called the Blue Door Band. A gifted writer and naturalist, she spent most of her time in remote places, analyzing and identifying with the land - especially the desert.Ī resident of Bluff, Meloy died suddenly last year at the age of 58 - while reading in bed - but not before she finished writing "Eating Stone," another major contribution to an understanding of the land she had tried to share with her devoted readers. ![]() ![]() EATING STONE: IMAGINATION AND THE LOSS OF THE WILD, by Ellen Meloy, Pantheon, 334 pages, $26.Įllen Meloy's most notable contribution before "Eating Stone" was "The Anthropology of Turquoise," a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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