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Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy
After two decades in the Southwest studying plant use and cultivation by the native hunter-gatherers and first farmers of the New World, Gary Nabhan, one of America's finest naturalists and nature writers, turns his attention to the Old World, walking the Franciscan Way, nearly two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi. Accompanied by a friend, Nabhan enters the heart of the Tuscan and Umbrian countryside in order to read the landscape as one reads a sacred book, slowly and with growing delight. He talks with peasant farmers, truffle sellers, cooks, and bakers, all eager to share their plants, seeds, cooking methods, and cultural insights with the American pilgrims. Saint Francis has come to be a model for what it means to be human in the natural world, and Nabhan takes him as a guide. This journey becomes a spiritual quest as well as an ethnobotanical field trip. Together with Nabhan we discover what is useful in the old ways, what remains wild in the civilized world, and what in ancient science has survived to make its way into contemporary culture.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publish Date: Dec 1st, 1994
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.00in - 0.70in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9780140239720
- Categories: • Europe - Italy• Essays & Travelogues• Essays
About the Author
Gary Paul Nabhan, a prizewinning essayist and agricultural ecologist, serves as the W. K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems with the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Praise for this book
"Unusual but important . . . entertaining and informative . . . the book afford[s] an evening retreat as satisfying as a shot of grappa with a plate of anisette cookies."--The New York Times Book Review
"Gary Nabhan went to walk in old Italy like a pilgrim. . . . This is a story about moving from sad uncertainty to part-time joyousness. It is a great book."--William Kittredge
Praise for Gary Nabhan: "Gary Nabhan is one of the most important food writers we have in this country." -- Alice Waters
"Ever since his first book, The Desert Smells Like Rain, I love to read his finely tuned descriptions of the natural world..." - Diana Kennedy
"Gary Nabhan went to walk in old Italy like a pilgrim. . . . This is a story about moving from sad uncertainty to part-time joyousness. It is a great book."--William Kittredge
Praise for Gary Nabhan: "Gary Nabhan is one of the most important food writers we have in this country." -- Alice Waters
"Ever since his first book, The Desert Smells Like Rain, I love to read his finely tuned descriptions of the natural world..." - Diana Kennedy