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Deserts: California and Southwest

  • Desert Bighorn Sheep

    Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon

    Author: Mark C. Jorgensen

    Photographer: Jeff Young

    Desert Bighorn Sheep Wilderness Icon is the most comprehensive photographic work on this elusive symbol of the deserts of the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Photographer Jeff Young worked …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Local Authors, Natural History/Ecology, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 160
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10
    • ISBN: 9781941384008
    • Year Published: 2014
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 29.95 Add to cart
  • Desert Night Shift **Soft Cover Temporarily Out of Stock**

    Desert Night Shift **Soft Cover Temporarily Out of Stock**: A Pack Rat Story

    Author: Conrad J. Storad

    Illustrator: Nathaniel P. Jensen

    In the Sonoran Desert Penny Pack Rat loves to collect things at night. One day Nana says she always wanted a silver spoon. Penny decides to find one for her. …

    • Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
      • Format: softcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795329
      • Format: hardcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795169
    • Pages: 32
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
    • Year Published: 2006
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
    $ 7.95 – $ 15.95 Select options
  • Don't Call Me Pig!

    Don’t Call Me Pig!: A Javelina Story

    Author: Conrad J. Storad

    Illustrator: Beth Neely and Don Rantz

    “Don’t Call Me Pig!” uses a delightful rhyme and clever colorful illustrations chock full of detail to tell the javelina’s story. What exactly is a javelina? The hairy little animal …

    • Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
      • Format: softcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795015
      • Format: hardcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795039
    • Pages: 32
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
    • Year Published: 1999
    • Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
    $ 9.95 – $ 16.95 Select options
  • Don't Ever Cross That Road!

    Don’t Ever Cross That Road!: An Armadillo Story

    Author: Conrad J. Storad

    Illustrator: Nathaniel P. Jensen

    In this delightful book, a teacher armadillo tells his class about their prehistoric ancestor – a glyptodont that weighed nearly two tons. He describes what an armadillo eats for lunch. …

    • Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
      • Format: hardcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795084
      • Format: softcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795237
    • Pages: 32
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
    • Year Published: 2006
    • Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
    $ 6.95 – $ 15.95 Select options
  • Etnobotánica Kumiai

    Etnobotánica Kumiai: El conocimiento sobre las plantas nativas de un pueblo indígena de Baja California

    Author: Michael Wilken-Robertson

    Etnobotánica kumiai explora la interdependencia notable entre los pueblos nativos y las plantas endémicas de las Californias, a través de la descripción a profundidad de 47 plantas y sus usos; …

    • Categories: California: San Diego, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California, Natural History/Ecology, Spanish/Bilingual.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 312
    • Dimensions: 7x9
    • ISBN: 9781941384572
    • Year Published: 2020
    • Language: Spanish
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 29.95 Add to cart
  • Fang and Stinger

    Fang and Stinger: An Arachnid Story

    Author: Conrad J. Storad

    Illustrator: Nathaniel P. Jensen

    This story is the friendship of a tarantula and a scorpion who are picked on by a tarantula hawk wasp and learn to stand up themselves. Contains informative text at …

    • Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
      • Format: hardcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795633
      • Format: softcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795640
    • Pages: 32
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
    • Year Published: 2013
    • Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
    $ 7.95 – $ 16.95 Select options
  • Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert

    Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert: The Last Seven Million Years *Free copy of Selected Artworks included with all orders*

    Editors: George T. JeffersonLowell Lindsay

    Southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park® is a vast, mostly arid desert, but the ancient landscapes of Anza-Borrego were richly populated riparian forests and savanna. Before that, it held a …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 416
    • Dimensions: 9 x 12
    • ISBN: 9780932653505
    • Year Published: 2006
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 24.95 Add to cart
  • Geoglyphs of the Desert Southwest

    Geoglyphs of the Desert Southwest: Earthen Art as Viewed from Above

    Authors: Anne MorganHarry Casey

    Across the deserts of the American southwest are one of the largest concentrations of geoglyphs outside of Peru’s Nazca Lines. These ancient Native American works of earthen art can be …

    • Categories: California: General, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: softcover
    • Pages: 120
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10
    • ISBN: 9781941384503
    • Year Published: 2019
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 19.95 Add to cart
  • Geology and Lore of the Northern Anza-Borrego Desert Region

    Geology and Lore of the Northern Anza-Borrego Desert Region: The Lows to Highs of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

    Editors: Charles E. HouserMonte L. Murbach

    Covers geology of the northern Anza-Borrego desert region including the 2010 joint field trip for SCGS and SDAG. Useful for anyone interested in geology, mines, history, groundwater, geologic structure, or …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 198
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
    • ISBN: 9780916251161
    • Year Published: 2010
    • Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
    $ 29.95 Add to cart
  • Geology of Anza-Borrego

    Geology of Anza-Borrego: Edge of Creation

    Authors: Lowell LindsayPaul Remeika

    A fascinating introduction to one of the most active seismic regions in North America where new earth crust is created as the Baja peninsula (and Borrego) splits from the mainland. …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 218
    • Dimensions: 6 x 9
    • ISBN: 9780932653178
    • Year Published: 1993
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 17.95 Add to cart
  • Gold and Silver In The Mojave

    Gold and Silver In The Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier

    Author: Nicholas Clapp

    In the 1890s, historian Frederick Jackson Turner lamented that the frontier was gone and with it the Old West, but overlooked was some 50,000 square miles of a frontier line …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 200
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10
    • ISBN: 9780932653062
    • Year Published: 2012
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 24.95 Add to cart
  • Indian Cradles of California

    Indian Cradles of California: And the Western Great Basin

    Author: Justin Farmer

    A thorough study of Indian Cradles, Cradle Boards, and Cradle Baskets is presented in this book by Justin Farmer. These cradles were created by Indians from northern Baja California to …

    • Categories: California: Central and Northern, California: General, California: Los Angeles/Orange County, California: San Diego, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California.
    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 220
    • Dimensions: 7.25 x 10.25
    • ISBN: 9780976149231
    • Year Published: 2013
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: Justin Farmer Foundation
    $ 24.95 Add to cart
  • Joshua Tree 7th Edition

    Joshua Tree 7th Edition: The Complete Guide

    Joshua Tree is beautiful. Joshua Tree is grotesque. Joshua Tree is peaceful, crazy, crowded, empty, freezing, sweltering, and a million other contradictions rolled into one. Some peoplethink it’s a wasteland. …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
    • Format: SC
    • Publisher: Perseus Press
    $ 15.99 Add to cart
  • Life in the Slow Lane

    Life in the Slow Lane: A Desert Tortoise Tale

    Author: Conrad J. Storad

    Illustrator: Nathaniel P. Jensen

    Is life in the “slow lane” really better? Tortoises think so! Shelly the Tortoise and her Grandpa spend the day learning about their cousins (crocodiles), eating their favorite foods (prickly …

    • Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
      • Format: softcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795336
      • Format: hardcover 
      • ISBN: 9781891795077
    • Pages: 32
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
    • Year Published: 2005
    • Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
    $ 7.95 – $ 16.95 Select options
  • Lizards For Lunch

    Lizards For Lunch: A Roadrunner's Tale

    Author: Conrad J. Storad

    Illustrator: Nathaniel P. Jensen

    Roadrunners are speedy, fearless, and when they do take time out from ruling the desert scrub lands and meadows they call home, they enjoy a tasty snack of… lizards? It’s …

    • Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 32
    • Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
    • ISBN: 9781891795008
    • Year Published: 2001
    • Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
    $ 7.95 Add to cart
  • Mining History and Geology of Joshua Tree National Park

    Mining History and Geology of Joshua Tree National Park

    Editor: Margaret R. Eggers, Ph.D.

    Joshua Tree National Park, one of the Big Four of California’s world-class desert preserves, protects over 1000 square miles of magnificent desert and mountain wilderness in three major ecosystems, the …

    • Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, Natural History/Ecology.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 120
    • Dimensions: 6 x 9
    • ISBN: 9780916251703
    • Year Published: 2004
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
    $ 19.95 Add to cart
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