Description Nabhan, a naturalist specializing in arid lands, seeks in this book to popularize his field. He believes a better informed general public would prevent abuse to longstanding desert ecology. With a judicious mixture of ethnobotany, folklore, history, sociology, and nutrition he creates a persona for 12 Sonoran Desert plants: the creosote bush, palm, mescal, sandfood, organpipe cactus, amaranth, tepary bean, chile, devil’s claw, panicgrass, and wild gourds.
