Richard Stephen Felger studies natural history in arid lands,
specializing in the Sonoran Desert. He is founding director of the
Drylands Institute in Tucson.
Bill Broyles is a research associate at the Southwest Center at the
University of Arizona.
"A series of elegant, sometimes haunting love letters to the
Sonoran Desert. A vital, important book. If you're already a desert
fiend, it's a must-have, and if you don't know diddley about the
desert, you need to pick it up. There really is no other book like
this."
--Tucson Weekly
"Blending natural and cultural history, biogeography, and
conservation, Dry Borders presents a comprehensive background to
the Sonoral Desert that is extraordinarily readable. Although
scholarly, the conversational tone and nontechnical prose makes the
personality and passion of the contributing authors apparent and
creates an engaging work. This large, handsome volume imparts to
readers a profound "sense of place" and will be an asset to anyone
seeking to understand the history, complexity, and future
challenges of this starkly beautiful region."
--Quarterly Review of Biology
"Everyone will find something of interest here, from overviews of
the history and geology to tributes to those hardy explorers who
set the standards for the decades of fieldwork that followed.
Highly Recommended."
--CHOICE
"I can imagine many readers in a colder or more thickly peopled
terrain curling up with it to dream, with this difference: what
it's selling is not the idea of moving to the desert, but of caring
about it."--Orion
"Provides an intriguing blend of natural and human history,
scientific information, personal reminiscence, and pleas for
conservation of the region, presented by some of the key figures in
the recent scientific exploration of the lower Sonoran Desert.
Clearly a labor of love that will remain for many years an
essential introduction to this remarkable desert region."
--Journal of Anthropological Research
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