A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Mares; Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

For most of us the word "desert" conjures up images of barren wasteland, vast, dry stretches inimical to life. But for a great array of creatures, the desert is a haven and a home. Travel with Mares into the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest to encounter a rich and memorable variety of small, tenacious animals.

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