Encyclopedia of Deserts

By Michael A. Mares

Book Overview

Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806131462
• ISBN13: 9780806131467
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Deserts are Cool

This book seems to have everything there is about deserts. I learned that deserts have lions, penguins, kangaroos, many spiders, scorpions and other animals, even fish and frogs. There are also many plants, with strange things like cactus and boojum trees. Even elephants live in the desert. I think the book is like an exploring trip from one desert to the other. I wish it had more pictures but it is easy to understand and has great maps. The book helped me write a report on deserts. I got an A. I would like to visit a desert to see what it is like to live there. I never knew deserts would be so interesting. They are too cool.