This book offers a study of plant uses among the Najdi Arabic-speaking tribal peoples of eastern Saudi Arabia. It also makes a major contribution to the larger project of ethnobotany by describing aspects of a nomadic peoples' conceptual relationships with the plants of their h…
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "more than 340 color images of the people, the terrain, and nearly all of the plants mentioned in the text, as well as an audio file of a traditional Bedouin song and its translation and analysis."--Jacket.
Lands of extremes, contrasts and constant change, deserts cover a quarter of our planet's land area and are home to some half a billion people. 'The desert' as an idea has long captured the Western imagination, but too often in ways that fail to grasp the true scope and diversit…
"Deserts may seem like harsh, uninhabitable places, but actually they support a diverse quantity of plant and animal life."--
Desert dinners: studying food webs in the desert
Describes how the plants and animals of the Earth's deserts serve as food for each other.
Desert dinners: studying food webs in the desert
Describes how the plants and animals of the Earth's deserts serve as food for each other.
Describes the plants and animals that live in the desert biome and the role that humans must play to protect their environment.
"The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, Everything That Stings, Clings, or Sings celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places"--
"The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, Everything That Stings, Clings, or Sings celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places"--
In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called "The Nature of Desert Nature" reveals the complexity of what…
"The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, Everything That Stings, Clings, or Sings celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places"--
"The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, Everything That Stings, Clings, or Sings celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places"--Provided by publisher
