A Desert Calling
Subtitle: Life in a Forbidding Landscape
Contributors: Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674007475
Subjects: Animal ecology; Arid zones, deserts; Mammals; Ecology; Science; Nature/Ecology; Science / Biology; Desert animals; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Biology; Field work
Description: "Filled with the seductions and trials that such adventures entail, A Desert Calling affords an intimate understanding of the biologist's vocation. As he astonishes us with the range and variety of knowledge to be acquired through the determined investigation of little-known habitats, Mares opens a window on his own uncommon life, as well as on the uncommon life of the remote and mysterious corners of our planet."--BOOK JACKET.