The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people.

In this work, Gary Paul Nabhan brings O'odham voices to the page at every turn. He writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize edible wild foods. Woven through his account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816546894
• ISBN13: 9780816546893
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"