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The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park
T. Scott Bryan Betty Tucker-Bryan
GUIDEBOOK 1995 PAPER 382 PAGES
A comprehensive practical guide to Death Valley, detailing day hikes and local attractions, and introduction to the human and natural history of the region. Excerpts from the logs of early travelers and explorers and the author's own observations offer a personal view into the national park.
(CAL67, $23.95)
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
NATURAL HISTORY 1990 PAPER 289 PAGES
FAVORITE
A beloved classic, read aloud at campfires throughout the Southwest. It's one of the great works on the value of the desert, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. Although Abbey writes specifically about the Colorado Plateau and his experiences as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab Utah, his message is universal. Originally published in 1990.
(DES02, $14.95)
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin Terry Tempest Williams
NATURAL HISTORY 1997 PAPER 107 PAGES
In this turn-of-the-century desert hymn, Austin -- a writer and naturalist who accompanied her husband on assignment to Death Valley in the 1890s -- finds a vibrant ecosystem where her forbears saw wasteland. An illuminating natural history, this slim book is also a meditation on things spiritual and an activist report on race relations in the desert. Originally published in 1903, this Penguin Nature Classic edition includes an introduction by fellow desert rat Terry Tempest Williams.
(CAL66, $12.00)
Death Valley National Park Map
Trails Illustrated
MAP
A topographic map of Death Valley National Park, at a scale of 1:160,000. Published in association with the National Geographic Society.
(CAL09, $11.95)
Adventuring in the California Desert
Lynne Foster
GUIDEBOOK
A guidebook for exploring the desert regions of Southern California.
(CAL73, $18.95)
Best Easy Day Hikes Anza-Borrego
Bill Cunningham
Polly Burke
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide to 20 popular day hikes in the 60,000-acre desert park.
(USW337, $6.95)
Best Easy Day Hikes Death Valley
Bill Cunningham
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide to 20 popular day hikes in the 3.3 million-acre national park.
(CAL179, $6.95)
Falcon Guide, Hiking California's Desert Parks
Bill Cunningham
Polly Burke
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to hiking in the deserts of Southern California.
(CAL74, $19.95)
Hiking Death Valley
Michel Digonnet
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide to hiking in Death Valley, written by a veteran traveler and adventurer in the region.
(CAL68, $19.95)
Death Valley and the Amargosa, Land of Illusion
Richard E. Lingenfelter
HISTORY
An exhaustive history of Death Valley and the Amargosa River, filled with illustrations, maps and documents.
(CAL10, $34.95)
An Island Called California, An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities
Elna S. Bakker
NATURAL HISTORY
An introduction to the ecology and wildlife of the Golden State, this volume is filled with photographs illustrating a variety plants, animals and geological features found throughout the deserts, forests and coastline of California.
(CAL11, $22.95)
Assembling California
John McPhee
NATURAL HISTORY
Another fine book on geology and natural history from John McPhee, this time in the company of Eldridge Moores, on travels throughout California.
(USW187, $15.00)
Basin and Range
John McPhee
NATURAL HISTORY
McPhee's illuminating account of travels in the company of geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes along Route 80 from Utah to California.
(GEO13, $14.00)
Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
NATURAL HISTORY
A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West.
(USW246, $18.00)
Death Valley National Park
Fred Hirschmann
Randi Hirschmann
Mark Schlenz
NATURAL HISTORY
One hundred and six color photographs of death Valley by landscape photographers Fred and Randi Hirschmann. It's a good overview of the park, especially recommended for travelers with a camera.
(CAL13, $19.95)
Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley
Robert P. Sharp
Allen F. Glazner
NATURAL HISTORY
An introduction to the geological features of Southeastern California.
(CAL12, $18.00)
A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians
Robert Stebbins
FIELD GUIDE
The definitive field guide, with a special section on Baja's endemic species.
(FG08, $22.00)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to California
Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, easy-to-use guide to 1,000 of California's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects, birds and other flora and fauna.
(CAL07, $19.95)
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird.
(USW418, $19.95)
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