Gregory McNamee

Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation in the course...

Following the model of the medieval Latin bestiaries, Gregory McNamee has written a book at once naturalistic, folkloristic, and literary, made up of short essays on forty-three animals of the worlds deserts. These essays discuss the creatures as they are and as they are imagined, and bring their natural lives and histories vividly to the page.