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A Desert Calling, Life in a Forbidding Landscape
by Michael Mares • Stephen Jay Gould (Introduction)
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2002
- HARD COVER
- 318 PAGES
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A lively memoir and account of field research -- and the search for desert mammals -- in remote Argentina, Iran and Egypt. Curator of mammals and director of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma, Mares has devoted decades of study to rodents, bats and other animals of Argentina with short forays to other deserts. With numerous photos and maps.
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