The Resource A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape, Michael A. Mares
A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape, Michael A. Mares
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- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 318 p.
- Contents
-
- Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
- Prologue
- Search for undiscovered life
- Immortal animals
- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters
- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar
- Winding path to field biology
- Desert at the bottom of the world
- Different actors, different scripts
- Desert in the sky
- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve
- Land of the shah
- Impenetrable land of thorns
- Devil's town
- In the shadow of the pyramids
- Naming the anonymous
- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos
- Aridity's cornucopia
- Life in the desert of salt
- Land of diamonds
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780674007475
- Label
- A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape
- Title
- A desert calling
- Title remainder
- life in a forbidding landscape
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael A. Mares
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Explores the little-known species of animals that inhabit the deserts of Argentina, Iran, and Egypt, and shows how survival is possible for these small mammals in a harsh environment
- Award
- Oklahoma Book Award for Nonfiction, 2003.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 154665
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mares, Michael A
- Dewey number
- 599.1754
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QL703
- LC item number
- .M368 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mammals
- Desert animals
- Biology
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- life in a forbidding landscape
- Label
- A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape, Michael A. Mares
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-306)
- Contents
- Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould -- Prologue -- Search for undiscovered life -- Immortal animals -- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters -- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar -- Winding path to field biology -- Desert at the bottom of the world -- Different actors, different scripts -- Desert in the sky -- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve -- Land of the shah -- Impenetrable land of thorns -- Devil's town -- In the shadow of the pyramids -- Naming the anonymous -- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos -- Aridity's cornucopia -- Life in the desert of salt -- Land of diamonds -- Epilogue
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 318 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674007475
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001051786
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674007475
- (OCoLC)48449973
- Label
- A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape, Michael A. Mares
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-306)
- Contents
- Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould -- Prologue -- Search for undiscovered life -- Immortal animals -- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters -- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar -- Winding path to field biology -- Desert at the bottom of the world -- Different actors, different scripts -- Desert in the sky -- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve -- Land of the shah -- Impenetrable land of thorns -- Devil's town -- In the shadow of the pyramids -- Naming the anonymous -- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos -- Aridity's cornucopia -- Life in the desert of salt -- Land of diamonds -- Epilogue
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 318 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674007475
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001051786
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674007475
- (OCoLC)48449973
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