Deserts
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Deathwatch
$8.99 Add to cart"An exciting novel of suspense, based on a fight to the finish between an honest and courageous young man and a cynical business tycoon who believes that anything can be had for a price."–H… [more below]
- Series: Newbery Winners for Microcomputers
- Author: White, Robb
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0440917409
- Language: English
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Southwestern Desert Plants: An Introduction to Familiar Species
$8.95 Read moreThe iconic saguaro cactus is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the southwestern deserts. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 f
- Series: Pocket Naturalist Guides
- Author: Kavanagh, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1583552081
- Language: English
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Picturing Sabino: A Photographic History of a Southwestern Canyon
$24.95 Read moreSabino Canyon, a desert canyon in the American Southwest near Tucson, Arizona, is enjoyed yearly by thousands of city residents as well as visitors from around the world. Picturing Sabino tells the st… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Lazaroff, David Wentworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 816547661
- Language: English
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Desert Night Desert Day (Rnp)
$17.95 Read moreThe desert is an amazing place filled with secrets and surprises. Desert Night Desert Day brings the best of the desert out from the shadows with warm and enticing illustrations for kids to enjoy over… [more below]
- Author: Fredericks, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1933855703
- Language: English
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Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places
$14.95 Add to cart“Sumptuous and vivid in every instance. Childs writes with enviable concision and richness of depth in these miniature essays.”
—THE UTAH REVIEWWriter and adventurer Craig Childs dwells upon desert ic
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1948814188
- Language: English
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Destination Desert: Biome Explorers
$19.95 Read moreSlather on the sunscreen and get ready to journey to the desert biomes of the world in this nonfiction picture book!
In Destination Desert: Biome Explorers, kid scientists make the trek to four differe
- Series: Picture Book Science
- Author: Perdew, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1647410657
- Language: English
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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
$46.58 Add to cartThe little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to Ch- Author: Williams, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0691201625
- Language: English
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Mojave Desert Trails
$13.95 Add to cartFlorine Lawlor, author of the book, Out From Las Vegas, and columnist for the Las Vegas Sun for 40 years, introduces us to some of her favorite desert haunts and lesser-traveled jeep trails in her boo… [more below]
- Author: Lawlor, Florine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1893343030
- Language: English
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Soul of Nowhere
$19.99 Add to cartIncludes black-and-white photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the author
In Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0316735884
- Language: English
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The Nature of Desert Nature
$19.95 Add to cartIn 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… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0816540284
- Language: English
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Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape
$21.95 Add to cartSolid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears–all of it, not just a sliver.
FOREWORD INDIES WINNER, EDITOR’S CHOICE PRIZE NONFICTION For more
—KIRKUS REVIEWS- Author: Burrillo, R. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 407
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1948814307
- Language: English
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Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes
$26.99 Add to cartA David and Goliath conservation story set on Lake Michigan.
- Author: Shumaker, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0814342043
- Language: English
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Oasis: Modern Desert Homes Around the World
$40.00 Add to cartWelcome to the desert. Welcome home. This visually stunning tour of the world’s most amazing desert homes will inspire you to create an oasis with “desert vibes” wherever you are.
Creatives are drawn- Author: Tillett Wright, Io
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0525575154
- Language: English
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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
$17.00 Add to cartIn this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.
As passionate as- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375725180
- Language: English
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Stone Desert
$21.95 Add to cart“Few writers can better express the strange vitality of desert landscapes than Childs.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Originally published over twenty-five years ago, Stone Desert brings the wonder and wildness o… [more below]
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1948814714
- Language: English
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The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas
$55.00 Add to cartA magnificent illustrated journey into California’s famed deserts and the astonishingly abundant life they contain.
2023 Glenn Goldman Award Winner for California Lifestyle, Chosen by the California In
- Series: California Lands Trilogy #3
- Author: Kaufmann, Obi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146188
- Language: English
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Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
$20.00 Add to cartThe cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave–its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs–becomes the definitive, oracular book of t
- Author: Layne, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250800358
- Language: English
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A Day in the Life of the Desert: 6 Desert Habitats, 108 Species, and How to Save Them
$18.99 Add to cartTour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin.
This meticulously illustrated picture book takes readers on a cross-continental tour- Series: Books for a Better Earth
- Author: Munro, Roxie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0823450929
- Language: English
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
$9.99 Add to cart“Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”–Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review
“This is not primarily a book about the desert,” writes Edward Abbey in his in- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 1985
- ISBN10: 0345326490
- Language: English
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Ice Cream Soup
$5.99 Add to cartGoopy and soupy, this yummy Step 1 reader with rhyming text is irresistably sweet! Now in Step into Reading, the premier reader line.
What happens when you try to make an ice cream cake but add too m- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Ingalls, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593432428
- Language: English
