A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape /
| Основен автор: | Mares, Michael A. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=281945 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Desert calling. |
Съдържание:
- Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
- Prologue
- Search for undiscovered life
- Immortal animals
- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters
- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar
- Winding path to field biology
- Desert at the bottom of the world
- Different actors, different scripts
- Desert in the sky
- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve
- Land of the shah
- Impenetrable land of thorns
- Devil's town
- In the shadow of the pyramids
- Naming the anonymous
- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos
- Aridity's cornucopia
- Life in the desert of salt
- Land of diamonds
- Epilogue.