The Desert Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0935704442
- ISBN-13
- 9780935704440
- Category
- Desert ecology
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-02-01
- Author
- David Wild
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- 1991
- 236 pages
- Paperback
- University of Utah Press
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