General Books About the Desert
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A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert Edited by Steven J. Phillips & Patricia Wentworth Comus "This fine book offers one-stop shopping for authoritative answers to all your questions about a most wonderful place, the Sonoran Desert. Bees, birds, beetles, biodiversity, all right here in one place in accessible prose. Who can ask for more than that?" - John Alcock, author of Sonoran Desert Spring and In a Desert Garden. more... |
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Book of Answers by David Wentworth Lazaroff Supplemented with nearly 100 illustrations, this 200 page book is broken down into three sections: getting to know the desert, the desert as one's backyard, and enjoying the desert. Seven useful appendixes cover a range of topics including hummingbird gardening, venomous bites and stings, climate, and additional sources of information about desert life. A fun way to learn how wild and fascinating our deserts really are! more... |
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Desert Waters: From Ancient Aquifers to Modern Demands by Nancy K. Laney Southwest Book of the Year Desert Waters provides an engaging and readable look at where we get our water in the Sonoran Desert and why we are overdrawing our water "accounts." more... |
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Desert Life / Vida Desértica: A Vocabulary / Vocabulario by Doris Evans and Jesús Manuel García Here's a handy bilingual vocabulary intended for students, teachers, writers, naturalists, and anyone else who needs quick access to Spanish words that describe the natural history of the Sonoran Desert region. Its small size (3" by 5") makes it a "natural" for a pocket, daypack, or glove box. more... |
