 | Death Valley and the Northern Mojave: A Visitor's Guide by William C. Tweed
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.80 A simply superb guide to the described area. Magnificent color photography, great writing, well organized, and gives wonderful directions. Absolutely the tops in travel guides.
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 | The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch
Buy used from: $3.49 Joseph Wood Krutch was one of the 20th Century's best writers. Every sentence is an individual jewel. See why, here, as you experience the desert.
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 | The desert (Literature of the American wilderness) by John Charles Van Dyke
Buy used from: $0.89 This book is a true desert classic in every sense. If you've ever spent time in the desert, Van Dyke brings it back to you: even the smell of the place.
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| Arid Lands (Planet Earth) by Jake Page
Buy used from: $0.01 A necessary book for anyone's desert library. Excellent text about desert ecology around the world and good photos. Outstanding on fighting desertification.
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| Living Earth Deserts (A Reader's Digest Living Earth Book) by Editors of Readers Digest
Buy used from: $1.37 Classification by climatic type, rather than geographical location, leads to a splendid text. Good photography makes this one a keeper.
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| The Desert Realm
Buy used from: $0.60 An excellent survey of the world's major deserts. The photography is peerless in every respect. A cornerstone to any desert library.
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| The Mysterious Lands: 2 by A. H. Zwinger
Buy used from: $0.20 Ann Zwinger, one of the best nature writers anywhere, ever, visits the Mojave, Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts. Fabulous!!
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| Seasons of the Wind: A Naturalist's Look at the Plant Life of Southwestern Sand Dunes by Janice Bowers
Buy used from: $0.20 Quite apart from the excellent coverage of Southwest plant life, this book will leave you amazed at the number and variety of dunefields in the nation's Hot Corner. A fascinating read.
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| Desert Lands of America by J. A. Kraulis
Buy used from: $0.35 A very nice photo essay on the many amazing features of American Deserts.
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| Desert country (Images of America series) by Steve Crouch
Buy used from: $1.86 Another very worthwhile book by Steve Crouch, master photographer and peerless wordsmith.
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| The great Great Salt Lake by Peter G Czerny
Buy used from: $1.99 A fascinating, evocative, color photo essay of Utah's Great Salt Lake is accompanied by an expert, easily readable text that sets out the many amazing features of this neglected natural wonder.
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| The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (Max C.Fleischmann Series in Great Basin Natural History) by Stephen Trimble
Buy used from: $5.60 An encyclopedic text about the Great Basin's origin, scenery climate, wild life, and flora. You will never regard this feature as "Flyover Country" again. Five Stars.
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| Cactus Country by Edward Abbey
Buy used from: $1.16 A very fine look at the Sonoran Desert by the late Edward Abbey, perhaps the ultimate fan of deserts. Ed leaves the iconoclasm out of this book, and it is well worth the read.
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| The Cacti of Arizona by Lyman David Benson
Buy used from: $0.19 An encyclopedic work, amply illustrated, about some of the most amazing plants on Earth. You will never need another book on this topic.
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| Baja California and the geography of hope by Joseph Wood Krutch
Buy used from: $6.98 The pre-eminent book on Baja, period. Krutch's and Paz' writings would be great literature in their own right, and the color photos are peerless.. I prize few books more than this one.
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| Baja California by William Weber Johnson
Buy used from: $4.50 A remarkable photographic collection augments an exceptional test to make this the second finest book I've seen on Baja California. Buy it. You won't be sorry.
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| Baja California by Sven Olof Lindblad
Buy used from: $1.45 A wonderful collection of photographs and limited commentary on an area many people are really not onto yet. A worthwhile read, as well, if sparse.
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| The Last Wilderness: A Journey Across The Great Kalahari Desert by Nicholas luard
Buy used from: $1.77 A sensitive, well-written look at one of the world's least known deserts, the Kalahari. Excellent commentary on ecology . Good wildlife pictures in photo section.
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| Namibia: Africa's Harsh Paradise by Peter Johnson
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $4.00 Brilliant, coffee-table sized photo essay of one of the world's harshest deserts and the country where it lies. Good, if limited, commentary, as well.
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 | The Sahara by Jeremy Swift
Buy used from: $3.95 A very well-done book on the world's biggest, hottest desert. The dune photos are beyond awesome. A real keeper, this one.
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 | The Alexander Technique Manual by Richard Brennan
Buy used from: $2.70 Feel like being a real armchair explorer? You'll never forget this wonderful book on the Central Asian deserts we used to collectively call "Turkestan". Nothing else like this out there.
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| Australian Outback#(World's Wild Places) by Ian Moffitt
Buy used from: $6.29 A great book on another little known large desert area. The narratives regarding initial European exploration are unforgettable, as are the photos.
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| Wildlife of the Deserts by Frederic H. Wagner
Buy used from: $0.38 A wonderful read, well-endowed with beautiful color photography, about desert wildlife all around the world. A true keeper
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