| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mammals.
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Mammals. |
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Desert animals.
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Desert animals. |
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Biology -- Fieldwork.
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Biology -- Fieldwork. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mares, Michael A. Desert calling. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002 0674007476 9780674007475 (DLC) 2001051786 (OCoLC)48449973 |
| ISBN |
9780674040588 (electronic book) |
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0674040589 (electronic book) |
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9780674007475 |
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0674007476 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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