A Natural History of the Mojave Desert

A Natural History of the Mojave Desert

Author: Lawrence R. Walker

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 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

Author: Michel Digonnet

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 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.


My Mojave

My Mojave

Author: Donald Revell

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Pastoral and devotional, this renowned author's eighth collection concerns itself with beauty and the deserts we inhabit.


Mojave

Mojave

Author: Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1616138882

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An introduction to the history, social life and customs, and present status of the Mojave Indians.


Guide to 50 Interesting and Mysterious Sites in the Mojave

Guide to 50 Interesting and Mysterious Sites in the Mojave

Author: Bill Mann

Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780966794700

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A one-of-a-kind guidebook series to the Mojave backcountry from desert explorer and prospector Bill Mann. Covering hundreds of sites, with photos from the past and present, these guides will lead you to fascinating and historical places that few people know about. Includes GPS coordinates and vehicle requirements for all locations as well as color photos of most sites.


Abandoned California

Abandoned California

Author: Andy Willinger

Publisher: America Through Time

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634992374

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In Southern California, settlers have long ventured into the Mojave Desert, seduced by its capacious horizons and fragile beauty, only to be abased by the intense heat, bone-dry terrain and maddening isolation. Industry, intent on extracting the land of its essence, set up operations, then walked away when there was nothing left worth taking. Civilization has always pushed into the frontier, and quite often the frontier pushes back. Areas like the forsaken homesteads of Wonder Valley and the abandoned mining operations of Joshua Tree seem simultaneously depleted yet majestically audacious in their quiet desolation, juxtaposed against the breathtaking landscapes of the desert. Abandoned California: The Mojave Desert is a collection of photographs and writings by Andy Willinger that capture the majesty of these forsaken buildings, vehicles and artifacts of the Mojave's once vibrant past. These sites have become meaningful, unintended statements - not only as vibrant, ephemeral artworks of minimal beauty, but as testament to the impact on nature by humanity. Undaunted, the Mojave Desert continues to brashly flaunt its skill in overcoming man's attempts to conquer it.


Desert Oracle

Desert Oracle

Author: Ken Layne

Publisher: MCD

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 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 Mysteries

Mojave Mysteries

Author: M. Behrman

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781540583864

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Author M.L. Behrman opens his cabinet of curiosities to bring you a deliciously spooky and bizarre collection of true accounts featuring everything from UFOs, unknown creatures, ghosts, hideous murders, demonic cults and some of the weirdest and most puzzling events ever to come out of the great Mojave Desert. Considered "the Rod Serling of the desert", M.L. Behrman offers an intensely interesting and perplexing assortment of stories from witnesses, both modern and historical, detailing their encounters with things that left them shaken, terrified - or worse! Fans of the supernatural and paranormal will find Mojave Mysteries a thrilling addition to their libraries and collections of strange, bizarre and unknown phenomenon.


The Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert

Author: Robert H. Webb

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874177763

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"This title presents new research on the Mojave Desert and the contributors discuss the desert from several perspectives including regional threats such as expanding human populations, climate change, atmospheric nitrogen deposition and invasive plants, the impact of roads in a desert ecosystem, soils and plant communities, shrinking aquifers and the monitoring and sustainability of this fragile ecosystem." --NHBS Environment Bookstore.