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Book Synopsis Sonoran Desert Explorers by : Korina Oswald Euan
Download or read book Sonoran Desert Explorers written by Korina Oswald Euan and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sonoran Desert is a magical place. Maybe you're visiting or you live here already and didn't even realize! Just outside the suburban neighborhoods of Arizona lives a thriving ecosystem full of diverse life and adventure. This field guide will help little explorers learn more about plants and animals, and gain an appreciation for an amazing ecosystem just outside the city.
Book Synopsis Sonoran Desert Explorers by : Euan Oswald
Download or read book Sonoran Desert Explorers written by Euan Oswald and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sonoran Desert is a magical place. Maybe you're visiting or you live here already and don't even realize! Just outside the suburban neighborhoods of Arizona lives a thriving ecosystem full of diverse life and adventure. This field guide will help little explorers to learn more about the plants and animals and gain an appreciation for an amazing ecosystem just outside the city.
Download or read book Deserts written by Nick Hunter and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide presents information on the world's deserts including interviews with desert explorer Nick Middleton and conservation biologist Kim Franklin, and information for staying safe when you visit a desert.
Book Synopsis Great Desert Explorers by : Andrew Goudie
Download or read book Great Desert Explorers written by Andrew Goudie and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert exploration, like climbing Everest or polar expeditions, is not for the faint-hearted, and many of the vivid tales within this fascinating biographical history end in tragedy. However, the informative and absorbing descriptions of the extraordinary journeys, challenges and achievements of these intrepid figures, are captivating. They risked their lives variously for good old fashioned epic adventure, solitude, fame, the answer to mythical questions and some were even spies. They experienced fear, excitement and hardship in their journeys into the unknown. There are many books on exploration but remarkably few on desert exploration. Moreover, some of the great desert explorers of the last three hundred years are now very little remembered or appreciated in comparison, say, with those who ventured to the poles, climbed Everest, or sought the source of the Nile. Yet, crossing unknown deserts is no less challenging. This volume finally brings these Great Desert Explorers into the limelight, with short, illustrated biographies of around 60 of the most interesting, intrepid and important explorers of the world’s greatest deserts. There is also a brief introduction to each desert region. The many original quotations, illustrations and maps, contemporary figures, as well as plates of a range of desert landscapes make this a colourful, lively and informative read.
Book Synopsis Showdown in the Sonoran Desert by : Ananda Rose
Download or read book Showdown in the Sonoran Desert written by Ananda Rose and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally? To understand the experience of those directly confronted by this problem, Ananda Rose traveled to the Sonoran desert at the border between the U.S. and Mexico. There she gathered opinions from Minutemen, Border Patrol agents, Catholic nuns, humanitarian air workers, left-wing protestors, ranchers, and other ordinary citizens in southern Arizona. She depicts the results of these interviews as two starkly opposed ideological perspectives: that of religious activists who embrace a biblically-inspired model of hospitality that stresses love of strangers and a "borderless" compassion; and that of law enforcement, which is concerned with safety, security, and strict respect for international borders.
Book Synopsis Dry Borders by : Richard Stephen Felger
Download or read book Dry Borders written by Richard Stephen Felger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part natural history, part call to conservation, and part love song, this evocative and informative excursion into the Sonoran Desert along the U.S.-Mexico border brings to life the beauty of a sparse and seductive terrain.
Download or read book Desert Explorer written by Greg Pyers and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes an in-depth look at desert habitats and the animals, organisms, and plants that dwell there, as observed during an imaginary journey across the Sahara Desert.
Download or read book Trails to Tibur—n written by W. J. McGee and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William John McGee set out from Washington, D.C., for the Sonoran Desert in 1894, he was inspired by a passion for adventure as much as a thirst for knowledge. McGee lived in an era when discovery was made through travel rather than study, and reputations were forged by going where no outsiders had gone before. A self-taught scientist in the newly forming field of anthropology, McGee led two expeditions through southern Arizona and northern Sonora for the Bureau of American Ethnology. There he conducted ethnographic research among the Papagos (Tohono O'odham) and the Seris, and his subsequent publication The Seri Indians helped secure his place in the anthropological community. McGee's complete journals of the expeditions, kept in small field notebooks and preserved in the Library of Congress, are published here for the first time. These journals contain detailed descriptions of the country and people McGee encountered and convey the adventure of traveling through wild and unfamiliar places--including a voyage to Isla Tibur—n, or Shark Island, in the Gulf of California--and being plagued by foul weather, a shortage of supplies, and fear of attack from hostile Indians. Trails to Tibur—n features 57 historical photographs taken on the expedition, capturing the places McGee saw and the people he encountered. Fontana's notes to the diary provide useful botanical, geological, and ethnographic information, while his introduction places McGee and his field work in the context of late-nineteenth-century anthropology and science. Trails to Tibur—n reveals McGee's versatility as a field worker and shows his methods, often questioned today, to be the reasonable response of a man caught up in the intellectual fervor of his time. For anyone wanting to share in the spirit of adventure, these journals are a landmark in the annals of exploration.
Download or read book Desert Explorer written by Greg Pyers and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes an in-depth look at desert habitats and the animals, organisms, and plants that dwell there, as observed during an imaginary journey across the Sahara Desert.
Author :Thomas Alan Wiewandt Publisher :co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co. ISBN 13 :0878427139 Total Pages :122 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (784 download)
Book Synopsis HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT by : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Download or read book HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary
Download or read book Sonoran Desert written by Rose Houk and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southwest Parks and Monuments booklet provides an overview of the geology and natural history of the Sonoran Desert, accompanied by color photographs.
Book Synopsis The Nature of Desert Nature by : Gary Paul Nabhan
Download or read book The Nature of Desert Nature written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Sonoran Desert by : Eric Magrane
Download or read book The Sonoran Desert written by Eric Magrane and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and pause, hawks hunt like wolves, and bobcats skulk in creosote. Both literary anthology and hands-on field guide, The Sonoran Desert is a groundbreaking book that melds art and science. It captures the stunning biodiversity of the world’s most verdant desert through words and images. More than fifty poets and writers—including Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ken Lamberton, Eric Magrane, Jane Miller, Gary Paul Nabhan, Alberto Ríos, Ofelia Zepeda, and many others—have composed responses to key species of this striking desert. Each creative contribution is joined by an illustration by award-winning artist Paul Mirocha and scientific information about the creature or plant authored by the book’s editors. From the saguaro to the mountain lion, from the black-tailed jackrabbit to the mesquite, the species represented here have evoked compelling and creative responses from each contributor. Just as writers such as Edward Abbey and Ellen Meloy have memorialized the desert, this collection is sure to become a new classic, offering up the next generation of voices of this special and beautiful place, the Sonoran Desert.
Book Synopsis Lower Sonoran and Sonoran Desert National Monument Resource Management Plan by :
Download or read book Lower Sonoran and Sonoran Desert National Monument Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sonoran Desert by : Jack W. Dykinga
Download or read book The Sonoran Desert written by Jack W. Dykinga and published by Harry N Abrams Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes through photographs the natural history of the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico
Book Synopsis A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by : Lawrence R. Walker
Download or read book A Natural History of the Mojave Desert written by Lawrence R. Walker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by : Steven John Phillips
Download or read book A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert written by Steven John Phillips and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows... "A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert" takes readers deep into its vast expanse, looking closely at the relationships of plants and animals with the land and people, through time and across landscapes"--
