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1) The Southwestern naturalist

Pub. Date

1979

2) National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah

Author

Alden, Peter

Pub. Date

19990921

Description

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Explore the plants, animals and habitats of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah with the help of this informative, portable guide. 1,200 color illustrations. 200 maps, diagrams & drawings.

3) C is for coyote: a Southwest alphabet book

Author

Helman, Andrea

Formats

Book, Picture

Description

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"This is a fresh and exciting approach to learning the alphabet using the fascinating animals and spectacular places of the American Southwest. A delightful mix of fun and informative facts is combined with stunning photography. 'Now I know My ABCs' will never be the same again!"--Provided by publisher.

4) The last cheater's waltz: beauty and violence in the desert Southwest

Author

Meloy, Ellen

Description

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An award-winning writer embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual as she reveals the physical link between the atomic age and her property on Utah's San Juan River.

5) Canyons and mesas

Author

Doolittle, Jerome

Series

The American wilderness

Pub. Date

1974

Description

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Seamed by arroyos and canyons, studded with mesas, buttes and towering pinnacles, these lands are comparatively bare of vegation. A single flowering bush stands out against a rocky bare background in one of the many photographs

6) The Southwest inside out: an illustrated guide to the land and its history

Author

Wiewandt, Thomas A

Description

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A friendly and informative guide to the awe-inspiring landscapes of the Greater Southwest - what they are, where they are, and how they came to be.

7) The secret knowledge of water: discovering the essence of the American desert

Author

Childs, Craig

Pub. Date

[2000]

8) The Southwest's contrary land: forever changing between four corners and the Sea of Cortes

Author

Childs, Craig Leland

Pub. Date

Description

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The Southwest is easy to love but difficult to understand. The land has diversity, extremes, contrasts, surprises and contradictions.

9) Meet the wild Southwest: land of hoodoos and gila monsters

Author

Tweit, Susan J

Pub. Date

c1995

10) Southwest colors

Author

Helman, Andrea

Pub. Date

2011

Description

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Discover spicy reds, cool greens, and vibrant blues with each turn of the page. Nature photographer Gavriel Jecan and author Andrea Helman present "Southwest Colors" in all it blossoming and bountiful beauty. Mammals, insects, landscapes, plants, and birds all visually illustrate the bursts of color that are the Southwest. Jecan and Helman present stunning images and informative, engaging text for a broad age group.

11) Wilderness areas of the Colorado Plateau

Author

Aitchison, Stewart W

Pub. Date

[1989]

Description

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Wilderness

12) Voices in the desert: writings and photographs

Pub. Date

[1995]

13) Cactus country

Author

Abbey, Edward

Series

The American wilderness

Description

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Lavishly illustrated description of the physical features, wildlife and vegetation of the Sonoran Desert of the Southwestern United States.

14) Slickrock: endangered canyons of the Southwest

Author

Abbey, Edward

Series

The Sierra Club exhibit format

Pub. Date

Description

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A pictorial exposition of the natural wonders that fashion the Utah wilderness, supplemented by personal thoughts on the reasons for its conservation.

15) The secret knowledge of water: discovering the essence of the American desert

Author

Childs, Craig Leland

Pub. Date

2001, c2000

Description

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Craig Childs, a naturalist and river guide, explores the appearances of water in the Arizona deserts, including underground rivers, flash floods, night rivers, and hidden lakes.

16) The desert

Author

Van Dyke, John Charles

Pub. Date

[1991]

17) Cliff dwellings: ancient ruins from America's past

Author

Colby, C.B

Description

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This "guide to cliff dwellings and pueblos of the Southwest includes an official map of...[11] of the 12 sites, photographs of the ruins, and a brief text describing the dwellings and something of the lives and cultures of their prehistoric inhabitants.".

18) The secret knowledge of water

Author

Childs, Craig

Pub. Date

[2019]

Description

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Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West--as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor--and has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme.