When you’re out and about, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Narrow your choices by group, and view just a few cacti at a time. The pocket-sized format is much easier to use than laminated foldouts, and the tear-resistant pages help to make the book durable in the field.
Bear bags, wilderness showers, and telling the temperature by counting the cricket chirps...
Whether you're planning an over night in the backyard or a weekend in the wilderness, this book is packed with stuff to know. The basics, from gearing up to choosing a site to building a tarp tent. Tasty outdoor recipes: Solar Oven Pizza, Chow Down Chili and s' more's of course—with 8 variations.
In Camp-Lore and Woodcraft, David Beard, an avid outdoorsman, provides youngsters and campers of all ages with detailed, easy-to-follow advice on building campfires for light and warmth; making a good fire for cooking; and packing, saddling, and mounting a horse. There are also some fine tips on preparing for a camping trip, choosing a camp site, and pitching a tent, plus notes on how to cut down a tree and the proper way to chop wood.
A Child's Introduction to the Night Sky is the perfect introduction to the always fascinating world of astronomy. Children ages eight and up will find out what astronomers have learned (and are still discovering), what astronauts and scientists explore, and what they can find by gazing up into the sky at night.
Coast to Cactus: The Canyoneer Trail Guide to San Diego Outdoors is much more than a hiking guide. The guide has 250 hikes, each with its own map and photograph, hike description with mileage, elevation gain/loss, difficulty rating, directions to the trailhead with GPS, trail use, special features, and type of habitat(s) found on each hike.
A coloring book extraordinaire! Forty of the 131 magical metal sculptures that are scattered on the Borrego Springs Valley by metal artist Ricardo Breceda have been carefully recreated in this book for your coloring pleasure. Included are descriptions of each sculpture.
Prickly Pete the packrat takes young readers into the desert to get some answers: Can desert tortoises climb out of their shells? Do Gila monsters bite and not let go? Are barrel cactuses filled with water you can drink? Are javelinas really wild desert pigs? And Prickly Pete's favorite: If you leave your watch outside at night, will a packrat take it and leave some cactus in its place? Beautifully illustrated, this delightful full-color children's picture book shows that desert facts often are much more amazing than the myths (cactifracts) we've all heard.
Coyote Claus: A Southwestern Desert Tale, is an original manuscript which brings the cultural heritage of the Sonoran Desert to life through the familiar genre of Clement C. Moore’s A Visit from St. Nicholas.
Desert Bighorn Sheep is the most comprehensive photographic work ever published on this iconic symbol of the deserts of the southwest. Over 200 high-quality photographs depict the elusive desert bighorn showing rare behavior, ewes nurturing newborns, and massive rams in ritualized combat for dominance. Written in an engaging style, it will appeal to both scientist and layman alike.
Newest and only up-to-date book on the cactus species found in the deserts of California. Beautiful photographs of each variety. Range maps show where to...