SAHARA; A Natural History
New York: Walker & Company, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 326 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w photos. Describes the Sahara desert in all its remarkable complexity. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
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THE WORLD OF ROBERT BATEMAN.
New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. 12 x 11, 180 pgs, beautiful color art reproductions. A beautiful coffee-table style book celebrates the life and talent of this well-known naturalist/artist. More
POISONOUS DWELLERS OF THE DESERT.
Santa Fe, NM: Southwest Monuments Assoc. 1953. Fifth Printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 48 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. A nice little natural history guide book to centipedes, scorpions, black widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, tarantulas, wasps, bees, snakes, the Gila monster, geckos, etc. Missing back cover. More
GUIDE TO ARIZONA'S WILDERNESS AREAS.
Englewood, CO: Westcliffe Publishers, 1998. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 304 pgs, color photos and maps throughout. Covers 63 wilderness areas, 158 spectacular day, destination, loop and shuttle hikes, and more. More
THE AMERICAN LAND.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1979. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 10 1/2 x 9, 288 pgs, index, color photos throughout. A look at America's lands, past and present, from the view of ecologists. Covers changing American conceptions, the forces that shaped the continent, the ecosystems, the people and natural forces that..... More
THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANIMAL LIFE; The Animal Kingdom, Volume I, Mammals
New York: Greystone Press, 1953. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 140 pgs, b&w and color photos. The strange and wonderful ways of mammals. More
GREENHOUSE PRODUCTIVITY AND WARER-USE EFFICIENCCY OF SELECTED DESERT SHRUBS AND GRASSES UNDER FOUR SOIL-MOISTURE LEVELS.
Las Cruces, NM: NMSU Agricultural Experiment Station, 1970. Staplebound Pamplet. 6 x 9, 15 pgs, charts. Water use, shoot and root production, and root-shoot ratios for four shrub and four grass species were measured under four soil-moisture regimes. More
THE HOT ARCTIC.
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 290 pgs, index, b&w and color photos throughout. Provides a richly descriptive picture of the Arctic region, showing why the relatively sudden and accelerating development of its land, sea, and air spaces is of enormous consequences for..... More
CACTI OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Phoenix: Desert Botanical Garden of Arizona, 1963. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 111 pgs, b&w photos. Science Bulletin No. 4. Covers Arizona, Western New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Eastern California. More
THIS COLD HEAVEN; Seven Seasons in Greenland
New York: Rand McNally, 2001. Third printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 377 pgs, b&w photos. The story of the author's travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. More
BIRDS IN JEOPARDY.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 8, 260 pgs, color illustrations. Covers the imperiled and extinct birds of the United States and Canada including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Lots of info. More
RIVER WORLD.; Wild Life of the Mississippi.
New York: Dodd Mead, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 271 pgs, b&w illustrations, mapped endsheets. The eternal face of the river from the ice of the north to the streaming bayou of the south. More
PRAIRIE: IMAGES OF GROUND AND SKY.
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1986. Hardcover. 10 x 11 1/2, 72 pgs, color photos throughout. Beautiful coffee-table style book of gorgeous photos of the Kansas prairie. More
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATURALISTS.
Denver: University of Denver Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 358 pgs, index, b&w photos. Biographies of nine leading naturalists of the Rocky Mountain area, as well as a biographical dictionary of natural history collectors. More
BIG RIVER READER; An Anthology of Stories about the Upper Mississippi, from the First Four Years of Big River
Winona, MN: Big River, 1996. Paperback. 6 x 9, 191 pgs, index. From the Big River newsletter, a variety of articles about the Upper Mississippi, covering bass and gizzard shad, piloting a paddlewheeler and living in a boathouse, ancient earthworks and collapsing bridges, and more. More
THE FOREST.
New York: 1963. Second edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pgs, index, photos/some color. A fine coffee table volume on the forests of the world, and the forest people, wildlife, ecology, industry and recreation. More
LIVING EARTH.
New York: Harper Colophon, 1959. First edition. Paperback. 5 x 8, 178 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. "The story of the marvelous abundance and complexity of life within the soil beneath us." More
COMMON MARINE INVERTEBRATES OF THE NORTHWESTERN GULF COAST.
Houston, TX: Gulf Publishing Co., 1975. Paperback. 9 x 6, 197 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w illustrations. Understanding nature's most unique creatures - a field guide to the marine life of beaches and bays. More
ICE ISLAND; The Story of Antarctica
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 218 pgs, index, b&w photos. Profiles of the men who "braved the shelf ice, the storm-whipped waters and the jumbled mountain ranges to find out what was there." Ex-library, rebound. More
BOAS & OTHER NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES.
Neptune, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1979. Second edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 93 pgs, colored photo endpapers, b&w and color photos within, colored boards. A preliminary guide to the snakes which can be kept satisfactorily in captivity. More
THE AMAZING UNIVERSE.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1975. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 199 pgs, color photos throughout. The author shares revelations of the new astronomy and explains varied theories about our turbulent skies: plus remarkable pictures made with the world's greatest telescopes. More
BATTLE FOR THE WILDERNESS.
New York: Praeger, 1974. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 246 pgs, index/notes. In two parts, "Wilderness Values", and "Saving the Wilderness", it shows how wilderness can provide new generations a link with the spirit of adventure and exploration at the heart of our nation's history. More
RANGE MANAGEMENT: WHY AND HOW.
Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University, 1965. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 32 pgs, b&w photos, monotone graphs and charts. Identification of forage plants, management, range condition, livestock to range and more. More
BATS OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK.
Carlsbad, NM: Carlsbad Caverns Natural History Assn. 1987. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 32 pgs, color photos. Very comprehensive description of each species which occupies Carlsbad Caverns. More
FUR SEALS- MATERNAL STRATEGIES ON LAND & AT SEA.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 291 pgs, index, biblio, graphs, b&w photos. Using quantitative methods and a Time-Depth-Recorder, a study of the strategies used by females in six species to rear and wean their young in different environments. More