{"product_id":"songbirds-truffles-and-wolves-isbn-9780140239720","title":"Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e “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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “In part to ponder my Mediterranean roots and in part to learn of the land of my saint, San Francisco,” Gary Paul Nabhan, one of America’s finest nature writers and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Desert Smells Like Rain\u003c\/i\u003e decided to walk the two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi. Along the way he met peasant farmers eager to share the love of their plants and seeds, recipes and customs. The fruit of this pilgrimage is writing that imaginatively traverses the boundary between nature and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “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.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—William Kittredge\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePraise for Gary Nabhan:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gary Nabhan is one of the most important food writers we have in this country.\" \u003cb\u003e-- Alice Waters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ever since his first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Desert Smells Like Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, I love to read his finely tuned descriptions of the natural world...\" \u003cb\u003e- Diana Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Paul Nabhan\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300694511845,"sku":"NP9780140239720","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140239720.jpg?v=1767736955","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/songbirds-truffles-and-wolves-isbn-9780140239720","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}