Deserts (Audubon Society Nature Guides) | 
|  | | | Title: | Deserts (Audubon Society Nature Guides) | | Author: | James Macmahon | | Publisher: | Knopf | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 12 May, 1985 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0394731395 / 9780394731391 | | List Price: | $19.95 | | Amazon Price: | $59.10 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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Product Description
A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the wildflowers, insects, birds, reptiles and other natural wonders of North America's deserts, from Oregon to Mexico.
Amazon.com Review
This essential guidebook to the North American deserts, one in a distinguished Audubon Society series devoted to continental biomes, contains in outline just about all the natural-history information a desert rat will need in the field. Drawing on the expertise of ornithologists, botanists, mammalogists, herpetologists, and other scientists across the country, editor James MacMahon offers an account of desert ecology, followed by life histories of characteristic flora and fauna, range maps, and illustrations. Of particular interest are MacMahon's notes on Native American uses of indigenous plants and animals. --Gregory McNamee
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Customer Reviews:
• Best Designed Guide 16 July, 2001
A most comfortable-to-use guide with a great layout & excellent quality in illustrations. Too bad it is out-of-print. Waterproof covers and sturdy cloth backstrip, made for prolonged use, we love it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1I8P8K2MEZLTT
• Beautiful Pictures 24 March, 2005
Not many field guides for deserts out there. This one has great pictures.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2D7ZJEED48YAW
• So-so, Pretty Circumscribed 29 May, 2006
I saw a pair of American avocets in Death Valley in March, 2006. With the help of a ranger at Furnace Creek, I was able to identify them from a National Geographic guide.
Are they in this guide? Even though Death Valley is part of their normal flyover range? No.
And that's exactly why this -- and other Audubon guides, from my experience -- just fall short in many ways compared to National Geographic or Peterson.
Now, it's true, you'll get more depth of coverage in the species that are actually covered. But, whether birds, trees, or shrubs, if the lifeform isn't pictured or described, all the "depth of coverage" in the world does you no good.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2YP7JPI48MRG8
• A Must Have For Anyone Travelling The Southwest 29 August, 2008
If you travel the southwest and want to know what you are looking at then this book is a Must Have.
Good descriptions, clear and concise photos and drawings, excellent maps make it a great buy too.
It is not a do it all guide, but by far the best one out there, it is one resource you will find yourself turning to time and time again.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1FOK9LMDX3DRD
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