{"product_id":"this-desert-hides-nothing-selections-from-the-work-of-ellen-meloy-with-photographs-by-stephen-strom-paperback","title":"This Desert Hides Nothing: Selections from the Work of Ellen Meloy with Photographs by Stephen Strom - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Meloy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Strom\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eAnn Weiler Walka\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriter and naturalist Ellen Meloy and photographer Stephen Strom\u003c\/b\u003e met in the fall of 2004 and began planning a collaborative book of images and prose expressing their shared love of the desert. Two months later, Meloy died suddenly at her home in southern Utah. Over the years to follow, Strom called on Meloy's writing to put his new photographs to words. The collaboration seemed to deepen over time, and it comes to fruition in \u003ci\u003eThis Desert Hides Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELLEN MELOY\u003c\/b\u003e was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her book \u003ci\u003eEating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for nonfiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award in the adventure and travel category. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eRaven's Exile: A Season on the Green River\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). A posthumous collection of Meloy's radio essays, \u003ci\u003eSeasons: Desert Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Torrey House Press and Radio West in 2019. Meloy spent most of her life in wild, remote places; at the time of her sudden death in November 2004 (three months after completing \u003ci\u003eEating Stone\u003c\/i\u003e), she and her husband were living in southern Utah. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTEPHEN STROM\u003c\/b\u003e spent his professional career as an astronomer. Born in 1942 in New York City, he graduated from Harvard College in 1962. In 1964 he received his Masters and PhD in Astronomy from Harvard University. Stephen began photographing in 1978. His work, largely interpretations of landscapes, has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is held in several permanent collections including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the University of Oklahoma Art Museum, the Mead Museum in Amherst, MA, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His photography complements poems and essays in three books published by the University of Arizona Press: \u003ci\u003eSecrets from the Center of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with Muscogee poet Joy Harjo; \u003ci\u003eSonoita Plain: Views of a Southwestern Grassland\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with ecologists Jane and Carl Bock; \u003ci\u003eTseyi (Deep in the Rock): Reflections on Canyon de Chelly\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with Navajo poet Laura Tohe; as well as in \u003ci\u003eOtero Mesa: America's Wildest Grassland\u003c\/i\u003e, with Gregory McNamee and Stephen Capra, University of New Mexico Press (2008). \u003ci\u003eDeath Valley: Painted Light\u003c\/i\u003e with poet Alison Deming was published in 2016 and is distributed by the University of Arizona Press.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 90\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760043589920,"sku":"9781948814287","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9395b2bff697c0c864b49203e2b9962b.webp?v=1780169873","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/this-desert-hides-nothing-selections-from-the-work-of-ellen-meloy-with-photographs-by-stephen-strom-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}