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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Book of Answers

by David Wentworth Lazaroff

$14.95 Softcover
ISBN: 1886679096
Paperback: 200 pages
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches

Description
What exactly is a desert? How can I attract hummingbirds? Are cactus spines poisonous? Is a javelina a pig? This book provides detailed answers to 42 questions that the staff at the Desert Museum are most often asked.

Supplemented with nearly 100 illustrations, this 200 page book is broken down into three sections: getting to know the desert, the desert as one's backyard, and enjoying the desert. Seven useful appendixes cover a range of topics including hummingbird gardening, venomous bites and stings, climate, and additional sources of information about desert life. A fun way to learn how wild and fascinating our deserts really are!

Sample questions:Reviews
Booklist (American Library Association)
"An excellent introduction to desert ecology . . . A very useful, and inexpensive, book."


Arizona Daily Star
"This valuable book should find a place on every desert dweller's shelf."

Amazon.com
"The 200,000 or so people who stroll through Tucson's Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum each year bring with them many questions: What is a desert? How is it that gophers and rattlesnakes can live in the same hole? How can I stop Gila woodpeckers from whittling down my house? If I find a desert tortoise, can I make it a pet? David Lazaroff, a biologist and writer, answers these and dozens more questions in this entertaining, intelligent book, which belongs on every Southwesterner's bookshelf." --Gregory McNamee

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