[PDF] Weird Wild Amazing Desert Exploring The Worlds Incredible Drylands eBook

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1324019530

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Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery explores Earth’s deserts and grasslands and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Are zombie ants real? How high can an armadillo jump? What’s it like to wrestle a python? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures in our planet’s deserts and grasslands with in-depth and often-bizarre facts. Flannery ties together concepts of climate change, evolution, conservation, and taxonomy throughout each animal’s profile, firmly connecting it to its environment while sparking wonder at its role in the natural world. Packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by real-life anecdotes from one of our greatest science communicators, Weird, Wild, Amazing! Desert teaches readers to cherish and delight in our planet’s ecosystems with Flannery’s signature mix of humor and wisdom.

Author : Jackie Golusky
Publisher : Lerner Publications TM
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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All around the world, there are some strange and unique places. From human-made landscapes to natural wonders, readers will discover some of the odd places people have explored.

Author : Mari Bolte
Publisher : Full Tilt Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1684526450

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Thirsty for adventure? Take in everything the desert has to offer by learning about some of the greatest places to go off-grid. Where are some of the most popular places to live “wild”? Who calls the desert home now? And what does it take to survive there? Readers will learn about survival techniques, real-life locations, respect for local culture, and the indigenous people who lived there first.

Author : Sara Oldfield
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Desert ecology
ISBN : 9781843307280

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"The book begins with a survey of deserts around the world, describing desert exploration over the centuries, the geographical distribution and diversity of deserts, their ancient and evolving landscapes, water, desert ecology and adaptations, desert people, and desert resources. Deserts then explores deserts and drylands in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, looking at wildlife, landforms, and traditional cultures. Finally, it focuses on the future of deserts, discussing conservation, desertification, protection of desert ecosystems and landscapes, tourism, and species conservation. The landscapes and highly adaptive biodiversity of deserts are brought to life by the text and photographs."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Baby
Publisher : Baby Professor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2024-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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If you would venture out for an adventure make sure you avoid the most dangerous deserts in the world. This book lists down where these deserts are and what make them dangerous. Is it the unpredictable weather condition? Or the animals living there? What are the categories used to determine the danger a desert has. Learn from this book t

Author : Philip Hyde
Publisher : Harcourt
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780151265909

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Examines the geography and geology of North American deserts and descrbies the lives of desert wildlife

Author : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Publisher : co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0878427139

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HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary

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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2000-05
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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.