Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Book Overview

Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them to focus their attention on just one animal--Ovis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarr n--and have them write about it. Have them write from makeshift blinds or from behind a gun barrel. Have them write while walking across the Cabeza Prieta at night, or while flying over it trying to radio-collar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816513988
• ISBN13: 9780816513987
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"