They begin and end days along the river, and that is all you need to know about time.” Sometimes her quest takes her close to her home in southeastern Utah, where those desert rivers flow at other times she ventures farther afield, to California and Arizona, to see how bighorn fare in nearby climes. But this is no more about sheep alone than Peter Matthiessen’s is about snow leopards or Herman Melville’s about whales, for Meloy is hot on the trail of what it is that happens when humans lose their connections with nature, and she offers gentle instructions for reconnecting: “The Canada geese will adjust for you the changing length of daylight as winter deepens. The late laureate of the Colorado Plateau, Meloy ( The Anthropology of Turquoise, 2002, etc.) here embarks on a quest to commune with desert bighorn sheep in the many habitats that support them. Meloy, who died in 2004, reveals how wild animals, encountered in wild settings, impart beauty and meaning to our lives.
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