Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands:
The Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve

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拉里·G. 马歇尔 & 克拉克布莱克

$19.95 新的低价$9.95
2009
ISBN: 0615280646
Paperback: 130 pages, full color
尺寸:11 × 8.5英寸

描述

The Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Preserve was created in July 1993 by decree of the Mexican government. Conscious that we protect what we know, the authors of this book describe the geology, 植物, 动物, and human history of this special place. Travelers passing through the area and visitors to the reserve will be able to use this book to observe, 熟悉, and understand the land's natural and historical happenings from prehistoric past to present. In this book the features of this hard but striking land are generously illustrated with dozens of large landscape photographs, dozens more images of creatures and 植物, 还有地图.

作者简介

拉里·G. 马歇尔,Ph值.d., is a retired geologist, 古生物学家, and naturalist who has has authored numerous scientific and popular article on Earth history and has developed exhibits on historical, 文化, and natural-history topics. He has led numerous eco-tours in the Southwest borderlands. 克拉克·布莱克博士.d., is a retired geologist with USGS, and recently with Western Washington University. An expert birder, he is also editor of Tucson Audubon Society?s How to Find Birds in Southern Arizona.

Richard C评论. Brusca, Ph值.D.
Former Senior Director, 保护 and Science, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

与 Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands, Drs. 马歇尔 and Blake have created a unique and beautiful book?both intellectually satisfying and visually stunning....Given its size and importance, there has been surprisingly little research accomplished in the Pinacates. 然而, what has been done is succinctly summarized in this book — by two scientists who know how to write for a broad audience. 为自然主义者, 有资格的或非正式的, the book provides well-organized and easily read summaries of major aspects of the region?s natural history — geology, biology, human history, etc. For lovers of the Southwest's most special landscapes, it provides an exceptional portfolio of beautiful and illuminating photographs. 事实上, there is no other single place where one can find the El Pinacate captured visually in such a broad and stunning fashion?.How I wish I had had this book so many years ago, when I first started exploring the magnificent and mysterious coastal region between the border and Puerto Peñasco. As the authors state, "The Pinacate, for many, is the heart and soul of the Sonoran Desert." If you want to explore the natural history of this "heart and soul," this is the book to start with.

Virtually every aspect of the region's natural history is covered, from pupfish to playas, from sand food to sand dunes, from astronauts to ejidos?.Naturalists familiar with La Frontera 知道 El Pinacate is the stuff of legends. 从O开始?odham salt treks to the coast; to the famous and colorful explorations by Hornaday and Sykes, 艾夫斯, Lumholtz, and Julian Hayden; to the Apollo astronaut training sessions — the Pinacate has been a place that draws both by its harshness and its promise and hidden mysteries.

The book [also] provides important and useful access information (including new maps) to the Pinacate Reserve.?[Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands is] a book that every Southwest naturalist should own?and keep within quick reach!