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Sunbelt Publications produces and distributes natural science and outdoor guidebooks, regional histories and reference, and stories that celebrate the land and its people. Sunbelt books help to discover and conserve the natural, historical, and cultural heritage of unique regions that include California, the Southwest, and Baja California.
This 200-page book is a comprehensive, clearly written and richly illustrated look at the climatology, geologic history, evolution, ecology and human pre-history of the Anza-Borrego Desert.
Since 1986, Jerry Schad's Afoot and Afield: San Diego County has been the premier trail guide for hikers, backpackers, and mountain bikers. It describes routes ranging from brief, family-friendly hikes to multiple-day overnight trips in remote regions of the backcountry, providing equal weight to the scenic and recreational value of each trip.
The book you need before you go to the Anza-Borrego Desert The Anza-Borrego and Western Colorado Desert Region is a vast, intriguing landscape that harbors a rich variety of desert plants and animals. Prepare for adventure with this comprehensive guidebook, providing everything from trail logs and natural history to a Desert Directory of agencies, accommodations, and facilities, as well as highway mileage markers and GPS coordinates.
What's a little lamp to do about a fierce coyote who wants to eat her? Why, trick him of course... and trick him again... and trick him one more time! Here's a lively retelling of a Mexican folk tale by master story-teller Verna Aardema, illustrated in bold, winning colors by Petra Mathers.
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.
Desert Indians of California and the Southwest had a great variety of plants at their disposal. Learn about these important plants that sustained our desert...
The Color & Learn series has become a popular way to enhance learning about nature and to improve our understanding of the natural world. This captivating coloring...
This unique coloring book has 40 of the most common plants and animals you are likely to see while exploring the chaparral ecosystem. Discovering the chaparral through coloring provides a wonderful opportunity to calm your conscious mind, focus on the moment, and become familiar with the wide variety of life found in California’s distinctive native shrubland.
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.
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.