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Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning landscape photographer Jack Dykinga turns his lens to the American Southwest's spectacular scenic wonders: Death Valley and the vast Mojave Desert that surrounds it. Botanist Janice Emily Bowers provides a personal text, complementing stunning views of this remarkably alive landscape...read more

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Describes through photographs the natural history of the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Discusses the development of Tucson, Arizona, and its impact on local environment, describes the beauty and fragility of the Catalina Mountains, and argues that they must be protected

Describes the nature of Mexico's dry tropical forest, particularly the endangered remnant surrounding Alamos, Sonora, and discusses how humankind and the forest have molded and accommodated one another over the centuries