At the Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima

by Amadeo M. Rea

Book Overview

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Klinger Book Award

The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat that has occurred over the past century. The oldest living Pimas can recall a lush riparian ecosystem and still recite more than two hundred names for plants in their environment, but they are the last...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816534292
• ISBN13: 9780816534296
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 459 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 11.0"