Desert
By: [written and edited by Elizabeth Haldane and Fleur Star]
Contributors: Star, Fleur
Series: DK 24 hours; DK 24 hours
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781405310390
Subjects: Desert ecology; Desert animals; Juvenile literature
Other titles: 24 hours desert; Around the clock with animals of the desert
Description: Features the creatures that survive in the desert. This work helps you slink through the sand with the desert monitor lizard at dawn, see the desert from the eyes of a vulture at midday, find out how ostriches beat the heat in mid-afternoon, and more.
Notes: Includes index.

Cover sub-title: Around the clock with animals of the desert.
Table of contents: title: Dawn: Introduction; title: What's up at 6 am?; title: Breakfast bar; title: Graceful gazelles; title: The burrowers; title: Morning: What's up at 10 am?; title: Lounging lizards; title: Big birds; title: Little critters; title: Afternoon: What's up at 2 pm?; title: A plague of locusts; title: Feathered friends; title: Life at the oasis; title: Dusk: What's up at 6 pm?; title: Cross-country camel; title: Night stalkers; title: Venomous vipers; title: Night: What's up at 10 pm?; title: Under the cat's paw; title: Foxy feast; title: A sting in the tail; title: Glossary.; title: 6:00am Dawn; title: 10:00 am Morning; title: 2:00 pm Afternoon; title: 6:00 pm Dusk; title: 10:00 pm Night.