Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World

by Christopher Norment

Book Overview

Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469668785
• ISBN13: 9781469668789
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"