Screen LibraryDesert /
"Desert takes a fresh look at one of the most significant natural aspects of our planet as both a geographical feature and a cultural entity. It examines and often overturns our common notions about deserts, from the fear of desolation and death of thirst on the one hand, to the attraction of t...
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Reaktion Books,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Earth series
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| Summary: |
"Desert takes a fresh look at one of the most significant natural aspects of our planet as both a geographical feature and a cultural entity. It examines and often overturns our common notions about deserts, from the fear of desolation and death of thirst on the one hand, to the attraction of the exotic, adventure and freedom on the other. There is an immense geographical diversity of deserts from the Sahara to Antarctica, and plants and animals have adapted to these hostile environments in intriguing and often bizarre ways. Diverse races have also inhabited deserts and evolved unique lifest Sand. Cacti. Lizards. Mirages. Deserts call to mind exotic places, a sense of adventure and freedom, but also thirst and desolation. In Desert, Roslynn D. Haynes takes a fresh look at this geographical feature and cultural entity as it becomes an increasingly threatened environment. Considering the immense geographical diversity of deserts from the Sahara to Antarctica, Haynes explores the intriguing and often bizarre ways plants and animals adapt to such a hostile environment, as well as the diverse peoples that have inhabited deserts and evolved unique lifestyles and cultures in response t |
| Carrier Form: | 245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781780231693 1780231695 |
| Index Number: | GB611 |
| CLC: | P941.73 |
| Call Number: | P941.73/H424 |
| Contents: | The diversity of deserts -- An armoury of adaptations -- Desert cultures past and present -- Museums of our ancestors -- Desert religions -- Travellers and explorers -- Deserts of the imagination -- Deserts in Western art -- Exploration and opportunity -- The world's major deserts. |