Shells on a Desert Shore: Mollusks in the Seri World

by Cathy Moser Marlett

Book Overview

In Mexico's western Sonoran Desert along the Gulf of California is a place made extraordinary by the desert solitude, the dynamic sea, and the people who live there--the Seris. Central to the lives of these people are the sea and its shores.

Shells on a Desert Shore describes the Seri knowledge of mollusks and includes names, folklore, history, uses, and much more. Cathy Moser Marlett's research of several decades, conducted in the Seri...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816530688
• ISBN13: 9780816530687
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 11.1"