A Natural History of the Mojave Desert

A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
Title A Natural History of the Mojave Desert PDF eBook
Author Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 343
Release 2018-03-27
Genre Nature
ISBN 0816532621

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Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.

Hiking the Mojave Desert

Hiking the Mojave Desert
Title Hiking the Mojave Desert PDF eBook
Author Michel Digonnet
Publisher
Pages 452
Release 2013
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9780965917827

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THE THIRD LARGEST DESERT PARK in the country, Mojave National Preserve protects 1.6 million acres of spectacular arid lands at the heart of the Mojave Desert. Part of the celebrated Great Basin province, it is a spellbinding region of mighty mountain ranges rising thousands of feet above vast inland basins. Famous for the majestic Kelso Dunes, the Devils Playground, and the world¹s largest Joshua tree forest, the preserve also holds considerable natural and cultural wealth, including a wild range of landscapes, striking plant communities, and a rich mining past. Above all, it is a land of contrasts, alternatively forlorn and vibrant with life, stark and colorful, blanketed in snow in the winter, awash with wildflowers in the spring, and scorching hot in the summer. Being high-desert country and generally a little cooler than Death Valley, topographically less rugged, and far less visited, it offers a tremendous potential for comparatively easier hiking in complete solitude.

Mojave Desert Trails

Mojave Desert Trails
Title Mojave Desert Trails PDF eBook
Author Florine Lawlor
Publisher Spotted Dog Press
Pages 152
Release 2015-11-19
Genre Travel
ISBN 1893343227

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Mojave Desert Trails explores some of the most interesting historic and geological sites in the Mojave Desert. Ecologically and environmentally diverse, the Mojave Desert encompasses a dramatic and enchanting landscape of ancient volcanic cinder cones, Joshua tree forests, sand dunes and rugged mountains. Weather in the Mojave changes as dramatically as its terrain: triple digits from late spring to early fall with winter temps often dropping below freezing. A wet winter, with both rain and snow, will prepare the Mojave Desert for a spectacular display of spring flowers.

Mojave Desert

Mojave Desert
Title Mojave Desert PDF eBook
Author John Howard Weeks
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 132
Release 2012
Genre History
ISBN 9780738588872

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It is a desert like no other, stretching from the eastern outskirts of Los Angeles across the width of Southern California and into parts of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. The Mojave Desert's attractions include Death Valley, the Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave National Preserve, Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, the Colorado River, Palm Springs, the Cabazon Dinosaurs, Calico Ghost Town, and dozens of Route 66 landmarks. It is the most spectacular desert on Earth, and it draws more tourists each year than all other deserts of the world combined. Mojave Desert is the first book of its kind, using rare and vintage postcards to provide a pictorial, historical grand tour of this American wonderland.

Desert Oracle

Desert Oracle
Title Desert Oracle PDF eBook
Author Ken Layne
Publisher MCD
Pages 193
Release 2020-12-08
Genre Nature
ISBN 0374722382

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The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Mojave Desert Peaks

Mojave Desert Peaks
Title Mojave Desert Peaks PDF eBook
Author Michel Digonnet
Publisher
Pages 600
Release 2019-02-19
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780965917889

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This guide showcases 130 peak hikes/climbs selected among 41 mountain ranges in California's Mojave Desert.

The Valkyries

The Valkyries
Title The Valkyries PDF eBook
Author Paulo Coelho
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 228
Release 2009-10-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0061842869

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A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of one man’s battle with self-doubt and fear is now available in a beautiful new package from HarperOne. An essential volume alongside Coelho’s other bestselling and influential books, such as The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Brida, and The Winner Stands Alone, the searing and unforgettable narrative in The Valkyries asks the questions most central to all literature—and all of humanity’s quest for understanding. Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? And how can we learn to let go of the past and believe in the future?