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Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
Christopher Norment
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| #1119157 in Books | 2014-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.50 x.75l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Beautiful Science Writing.|By David Lintner|This is a beautifully and sensitively written trip through an area of California that I know well. I love it when a scientist writes with a poet's sensitivity to the subject, and can craft the written word with elegance. I recommend it especially to those who love the deserts of southern California and western Nevada.|0 of 0 people f||An intriguing tapestry of scientific exploration and natural history that also takes turns as a eulogy, a love letter, a poem and ultimately a plea.--High Country News||
Creates a poetic-ecological argument for conservation on a global scale.
Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the dese...
You easily download any file type for your device.Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World | Christopher Norment.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
