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Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
The Atacama Desert in Chile is commonly known as the driest place on Earth. Studies by a group of British scientists have suggested that some riverbeds have been dry for 120,000 years. Once known for its rich deposits of copper and the world's largest natural supply of sodium nitrate, the desert is now home to the largest space observatory every built by man. Because of its high altitude, nearly non-existent cloud cover, dry air, and lack of light...
5) Deserts
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Provides a basic introduction to deserts, including geographical information and plant and animal life"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c1990
Language
English
Description
Rising to heights of 13,000 feet, the Sarawat Mountains of Western Arabia extend for 1,000 miles along the entire length of the Red Sea, and are home to numerous species of wildlife. High juniper forests, fed by moisture rising from the Red Sea, support large troops of Hamadryas baboons, and exotic African birds such as the hornbill, Abyssinian roller, and thirteen other bird species found nowhere else in the world. The abandoned mountain village...
10) Wild bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents don't know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right. The Wren who arrives in the Utah...
11) Deathwatch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause—a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the entire world.
15) In the desert
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 17
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While in the Australian desert, ant-sized Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are carried away by a dust-devil and face many dangerous creatures, from a flock of wild parakeets to a Perenti lizard, as they try to make their way back to Uncle Al.
18) Erak's ransom
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
19) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
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