The desert : lands of lost borders / Michael Welland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welland, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arid regions.

Desert ecology.

Deserts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From endless sand dunes and prickly cacti to shimmering mirages and green oases, deserts evoke contradictory images in us. They are lands of desolation, but also of romance, of blistering Mojave heat and biting Gobi cold. Covering a quarter of the earth's land mass and providing a home to half a billion people, they are both a physical reality and landscapes of the mind. The idea of the desert has long captured Western imagination, put on display in films and literature, but these portrayals often fail to capture the true scope and diversity of the people living there. Bridging the scientific

Contents:

Cover; The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders; Imprint Page; Contents; Preface; One: Wet and Dry, Hot and Cold; Two: Big and Small, Fast and Slow; Three: Insiders and Outsiders, Civilization and Savagery; Four: Outsiders and Insiders, New World and Old; Five: Mind and Matter, Body and Soul; Six: Ancient and Modern, Boom and Bust; Seven: Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports; Eight: Feast or Famine, Knowns and Unknowns; A Personal Epilogue; Sources and Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements and Text Permissions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, February 17, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78023-389-2

OCLC:

903316855