Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Book Overview

The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists--and have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up around Arab grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in a family that has been emigrating to the United States and Mexico from Lebanon for more than a century, and he himself frequently travels to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816526591
• ISBN13: 9780816526598
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"