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Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Whether you covet a renovated Airstream or a sprawling, modern stucco, desert has become the new beachfront when it comes to prime real estate. Artist iO Tillett Wright captures this specific culture shared all over the world of desert-living, from Texas and California in the United States to Chile, Morocco, and Australia. The detailed overview of the lifestyle is what sets this book apart. Featuring classic, well-known desert homes like Georgia...
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Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique...
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English
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The desert is more than just a barren wasteland -- it's an ecological system booming with life. Have you ever wondered which animals call the Southwest's deserts home? Have you asked yourself how they can possibly survive? This fantastic guide to desert life, written by Karen Krebbs, holds the answers. With stunning photography, as well as fascinating and surprising information, you'll find Desert Life of the Southwest hard to put down! Book Features:...
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English
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Everyday Creatures is a collection of thirteen simply and elegantly told nature essays, set in time over the course of a naturalist's lifetime-from field-trip experiences as a freshman and sophomore in college, through the challenges of producing a dissertation in ecology, and on through the author's career at a major university. Yet these stories are not the scientific reports of a research professor, nor are they an attempt at popular science writing....
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An "authoritative, comprehensive, well written, and entertaining" guide to staying alive in the desert from a Texas Parks and Wildlife veteran (Library Journal).
Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn't lead themselves, much less a horse, to water. David Alloway's goal...
6) Tumble
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
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English
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Who deserves the real credit for convincing Geronimo and his band of renegades to finally surrender once and for all?
In 1926, Anton Mazzanovich (1860-1934) would write an authoritative narrative off the events that unfolded during his efforts to contain and capture Gernomio and his band of renegades.
Regarding who should be given credit for inducing Geronimo to surrender, the author notes that "Lieutenant Gatewood, to my knowledge, was never given...
9) Skywater
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English
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An aging husband and wife observe a band of coyotes who, faced with a diminishing water supply, set out across the Southwestern desert in search of the mythical source of all water.
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English
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In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling desert villages, bitter Indian feuds, and a rich history that transcends borders. He profiles notorious predators from mountain lions to drug lords and land barons. Through it all, Bowden offers prescient visions of a future in which the region's age-old dramas replay...
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"Finalist for the Turku Book Prize, European Society for Environmental History" "Honorable Mention for the DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in History / Social Sciences" Philipp Lehmann is assistant professor of history at University of California, Riverside.
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century,...
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
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