Desert Journal : a Naturalist Reflects on Arid California.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

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Main Author: Cowles, Raymond B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
Series:UC Press voices revived.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Survival in an Arid Environment -- 1: The Ditch Camp -- 2: Limits to Life in a Thirsty Land -- 3: California, Land of Change -- 4: California, Land of Contrast -- 5: Around the Campfire -- 6: The Fire Factor -- 7: Back at the Ditch Camp -- 8: Living Thermometers, Part I -- 9: Living Thermometers, Part II -- 10: The Mesquite Camp -- 11: Wide Open Spaces -- Part II: Surviving Each Other -- 12: The Hunters and the Hunted -- 13: Watching Eyes -- 14: The Secret of Success Is Blend -- 15: Discarded Tails and Blood-Spitting Eyes 
505 8 |a 16: Dividing Up the Habitat -- 17: Adaptation, the Mechanics of Survival -- 18: Mesquite-A Vignette of Desert Survival -- 19: The Desert's Brushy Edges -- 20: Nothing but Noisy Tree Frogs -- 21: Birds in Black-and- White -- 22: True-or-Faise -- 23: Epilogue: The Promethean Myth -- Index 
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