Obi Kaufmann

The Deserts of California

A California Field Atlas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An exploration of California's deserts and their biodiversity, including hundreds of watercolor maps and trail paintings"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heyday Books
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 205mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9781597146180
• ISBN-10: 1597146188
• Artikelnr.: 67039058

Autorenporträt

Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), and The Coasts of California (2022), all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com.

Inhaltsangabe

ABRIDGED TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: A Promise of Life and Death: Journey into the Desert Heart
Keys and measures
1. The Dire and the Sublime: Exploring California desert physiography
2. Every Sacred Drop: California desert water
3. The Living Network: Desert plant habitats
4. Big Desert Parcels of Federal and State Land: Parks, monuments, and
military inholdings
5. Of Sagebrush and Solitude: The Great Basin Desert in California
6. Of Resilience and Fragility: The Mojave Desert in California
7. Of the Remote and the Rugged: The Colorado-Sonoran Desert in California
8. Philosophies of What Comes Next: California’s Tomorrow Desert
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author