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All the Wild and Lonely Places, Journeys in a Desert landscape
• Lawrence Hogue
• HISTORY
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A natural and human history of the Anza-Borrego.
(USW338, $30.00)
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Arabian Sands
• Wilfred Thesiger
• Rory Stewart
• EXPLORATION
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The last of the great British traveler-explorers, Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) journeyed among the nomadic camel-breeding peoples of Southern Arabia in the late 1940s, falling in love with the desert and ways of life of the Bedouin. This eloquent book is his tribute to them.
(ARB15, $15.00)
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Baja California Plant Field Guide
• Norman C. Roberts
• FIELD GUIDE
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With hundreds of color photographs illustrating commonly-encountered plants, this excellent field guide also includes short introductory chapters on the botanic areas of Baja California, as well as to its geology and climate. Indispensable for plant appreciation.
(BJA05, $24.95)
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Best Easy Day Hikes Anza-Borrego
• Bill Cunningham
• Polly Burke
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide to 20 popular day hikes in the 60,000-acre desert park.
(USW337, $6.95)
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The Big Bend, A History of the Last Texas Frontier
• Ron C. Tyler
• HISTORY
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A history of West Texas and Big Bend from Spanish exploration through pioneer days and the establishment of the national park.
(USW90, $15.95)
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Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water
• Marc Reisner
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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Compass Guide Arizona
• Lawrence Cheek
• Carrie Sears Bell
• Michael Freeman
• Kerrick James
• GUIDEBOOK
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A personable and well-written overview of Arizona's natural attractions, history, people, arts and architecture.
(USW121, $21.95)
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Death Valley and the Amargosa, Land of Illusion
• Richard E. Lingenfelter
• HISTORY
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An exhaustive history of Death Valley and the Amargosa River, filled with illustrations, maps and documents.
(CAL10, $34.95)
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Death Valley National Park
• Fred Hirschmann
• Randi Hirschmann
• Mark Schlenz
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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A Desert Bestiary, Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World's Dry Places
• Gregory McNamee
• ANTHOLOGY
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From the ant to the wolf, this is a lively, informative tribute to desert animals and their place in literature, folklore and ecology.
(DES08, $14.95)
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A Desert Calling, Life in a Forbidding Landscape
• Michael Mares
• Stephen Jay Gould
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A lively memoir and account of field research -- and the search for desert mammals -- in remote Argentina, Iran and Egypt.
(DES09, $29.95)
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The Desert Road to Turkestan
• Owen Lattimore
• EXPLORATION
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Originally published in 1927. Lattimore recounts his daredevil journey by camel caravan through the high steppes of China's unknown Gobi.
(CAS14, $18.00)
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Desert Solitaire
• Edward Abbey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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One of the great works on the value of the desert, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. Although Abbey writes specifically about his experiences as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab Utah, his message is universal.
(DES02, $14.95)
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Desert Survival Skills
• David Alloway
• GUIDEBOOK
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A friendly, humorous guide to short-term and long-term survival in the desert.
(DES06, $24.95)
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Edge of Taos Desert, An Escape to Reality
• Mabel Dodge Luhan
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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First published in 1937, this story reveals the spiritual awakening the New York socialite experienced through Taos, the Pueblo Indians and Indian Tony Luhan, whom she later married.
(USW127, $21.95)
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A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians
• Robert Stebbins
• FIELD GUIDE
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The definitive field guide, with a special section on Baja's endemic species.
(FG08, $22.00)
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For All Seasons, A Big Bend Journal
• Roland H. Wauer
• Nancy McGowan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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These diary entries, compiled over 30 years, chronicle a year in Big Bend National Park. Wauer is the former chief naturalist at the park.
(USW89, $19.95)
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The Forgotten Peninsula, A Naturalist in Baja California
• Joseph Wood Krutch
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A classic, leisurely account of the plants, landscapes and history of Lower California.
(BJA01, $17.95)
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Gathering the Desert
• Gary Paul Nabhan
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A well-written account of desert cultures and botany in the American Southwest.
(USW120, $19.95)
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Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley
• Robert P. Sharp
• Allen F. Glazner
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An introduction to the geological features of Southeastern California.
(CAL12, $18.00)
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Getting Over the Color Green
• Scott Slovic
• ANTHOLOGY
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An anthology and tribute to the American desert.
(SWU62, $19.95)
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Glory in a Camel's Eye, A Perilous Trek through the Greatest African Desert
• Jeffrey Tayler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The you-are-there narrative of a 535-mile trek across the Draa Valley in the Moroccan Sahara.
(NAF35, $14.00)
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In a Desert Land, Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan
• Neil Folberg
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A stunning collection of photographs of the desert Middle East, including the Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem. A first-person account accompanies the photographs.
(JRD06, $49.95)
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Into a Desert Place
• Graham MacKintosh
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The entertaining and typically British story of a 3,000-mile lark around the Peninsula by the spectacularly ill-equipped Mackintosh. The book takes the form of a two-year-long diary, recounting the eccentric personalities and his day-to-day efforts to feed himself -- along with some down-to-earth prose on the remote grandeur of the desert and sea.
(BJA07, $16.95)
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An Island Called California, An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities
• Elna S. Bakker
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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Land of the Desert Sun: Texas' Big Bend Country
• D. Gentry Steele
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The evocative black-and-white photographs of this book capture the scale and magnificence of the desert landscapes of Big Bend.
(USW84, $19.95)
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Lost World of the Kalahari
• Laurens van der Post
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Originally published in 1958, this poetic book is the story of a quest to find the San people in the remote desert. It has become a classic romanticized tale of an encounter between the literate European and "noble savage": mystical, captivating and a useful record of a time.
(SAF24, $17.00)
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Moon Handbook Baja
• Joe Cummings
• GUIDEBOOK
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Packed with maps, charts and photographs, desert rat Cummings combines practical advice with solid basic information on the natural history of Baja California in this comprehensive guide.
(BJA09, $19.95)
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Naturalist's Big Bend, An Introduction to the Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles
• Roland H. Wauer
• FIELD GUIDE
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Commonly encountered plants and animals of Big Bend.
(USW82, $15.95)
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A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country
• David Williams
• Gloria Brown
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact field guide to the wildlife of the high desert of the Colorado Plateau and the nine national parks of the region. Williams includes an overview of the history, geology and ecology of the high desert along with basic information on identifying common plants and animals.
(USW289, $22.95)
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Places in the Sand
• Margaret Courtney-Clarke
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully produced collection of color photographs of the Namibian desert landscape by the noted photographer.
(NMB09, $45.00)
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The Redrock Chronicles, Saving Wild Utah
• T. H. Watkins
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A natural and human history of the Colorado Plateau, and most specifically southern Utah, illustrated with photographs. Watkins explores the complex geology, human settlement and modern issues concerning the region.
(USW267, $29.95)
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Sahara Unveiled, A Journey across the Desert
• William Langewiesche
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Traveling across the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, Langeweische has written an uncommonly good memoir of the desert, with meditations on its history, inhabitants and allure.
(NAF05, $14.95)
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Sahara, The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert
• Sheila Hirtle
• Marq de Villiers
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A chronicle of the geography, history and nature of the Sahara. The author combines travelogue, science and archaeology in this informative report.
(NAF13, $14.00)
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Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest
• James Halfpenny
• Todd Telander
• FIELD GUIDE
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A pocket guide to tracks, scats and signs of the animals of the region.
(SWU61, $9.95)
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The Songlines
• Bruce Chatwin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• FAVORITE
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Chatwin transforms a journey through the outback into an exhilarating, semi-fictional meditation on our place in the world.
(AUS01, $15.00)
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Tracks, A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
• Robyn Davidson
• EXPLORATION
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The true-life story of a woman's trek across the Australian outback -- an adventurous tale shot through with a feel for the landscape and empathy for the Aborigines she meets along the way.
(AUS15, $14.00)
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Yemen
• Tim MacKintosh-Smith
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A wonderfully insightful, informative and entertaining travelogue.
(ARB25, $18.95)
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