David Rains Wallace

Chuckwalla Land

The Riddle of California's Desert

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Described as a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California-its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, Wallace illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scientists and scholars appear throughout these pages, includi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-94866-2
EAN: 9780520948662
Produktnummer: 21595947
Verlag: University of California Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 885 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

David Rains Wallace is the author of seventeen books, including Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas; Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, A New York Times Notable Book; and The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, winner of the John Burroughs Medal (all available from UC Press).