The life of the desert
By: [by] Ann and Myron Sutton.
Contributors: Sutton, Myron.
Series: Our living world of nature
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Desert biology
Description: The world's largest deserts are situated where the average annual rainfall is scarce. Most of them lie in two great belts near the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south. Temperatures are usually thought of as being extremely high, but this is not always the case. Also question of rainfall.
Notes: Rj-72177

Bibliography: p. 227.