The Nature of Desert Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Desert Nature write by Gary Paul Nabhan. This book was released on 2020-11-10. The Nature of Desert Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert write by Steven J. Phillips. This book was released on 2000. A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Desert
Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert write by Roslynn D. Haynes. This book was released on 2013-11-15. Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sand. Cacti. Lizards. Mirages. Deserts call to mind exotic places, a sense of adventure and freedom, but also thirst and desolation. In Desert, Roslynn D. Haynes takes a fresh look at this geographical feature and cultural entity as it becomes an increasingly threatened environment. Considering the immense geographical diversity of deserts from the Sahara to Antarctica, Haynes explores the intriguing and often bizarre ways plants and animals adapt to such a hostile environment, as well as the diverse peoples that have inhabited deserts and evolved unique lifestyles and cultures in response to their surroundings. She asks why Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all originated in the deserts of the Middle East and traces the connections between the minimalism of desert existence and the pursuit of a spiritual dimension. Finally, she describes the allure deserts have exerted on the West, the significance of desolate landscapes in literature and film, and the revolution in artists’ responses to the desert as an empty space and as an inspiration for new visual techniques with which to view it. Ending with a look at how commercial and military interests threaten desert ecologies, Desert casts new light on our view of these seemingly barren places.
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Natural History of the Mojave Desert write by Lawrence R. Walker. This book was released on 2018-03-27. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.
Arabian Deserts
Arabian Deserts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabian Deserts write by H. Stewart Edgell. This book was released on 2006-07-21. Arabian Deserts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first comprehensive survey of all the deserts of Arabia, based largely on the author’s 50 years of experience there. The text deals with every kind of desert in the region, from vast sand seas to clay pans and stony plains to volcanic flows. Along with dune types unique to the region the author outlines climatic changes, current ecology and human influence on desertification.
