Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/G8pU1 Chuckwalla Land The Riddle of California's Desert By: David Rains Wallace Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520256163, 0520256166 eText ISBN: 9780520948662, 0520948661 Edition: 1st Pages: 280 Format: EPUB Available from $ 36.95 USD SKU 9780520948662 Described as a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California—its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, Wallace illuminates the desert’s intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scientists and scholars appear throughout these pages, including maverick paleobiologist Daniel Axelrod, botanist Ledyard Stebbins, and naturalists Edmund Jaeger and Joseph Wood Krutch. Weaving together ecology, geology, natural history, and mythology in his characteristically eloquent voice, Wallace reveals that there is more to this starkly beautiful landscape than meets the eye.
