| Description |
207 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 207. |
| Contents |
Land of big skies and big horizons -- Touching hands with history -- The miracle of moisture -- Water, wind, and cataclysm shape the land -- Frontiers past and present -- Beauty and harshness in the desert world : a portfolio -- Plants : a tenacity for survival -- Animals : adaption in a harsh land -- Free spirits, desert rats -- The desert today and tomorrow. |
| Summary |
Describes the deserts in the Southwest United States including the Mojove, Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Great Basin. Also includes information on the desert cultures in the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Baja California, Casa Grandes, Pueble Bonito, San Ignacio and information on some of the groups and individuals who survived the desert. |
| Subject |
Deserts.
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Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Walter Meayers, 1908-, illustrator.
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National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division.
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| Added Title |
American deserts.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Findley, Rowe. Great American deserts. [Washington, National Geographic Society, 1972] (OCoLC)575241160 |
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Online version: Findley, Rowe. Great American deserts. [Washington, National Geographic Society, 1972] (OCoLC)607769093 |
| ISBN |
0870441078 |
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9780870441073 |
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