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Adventuring in the California Desert by: Lynne Foster List Price: CDN$ 24.00 Price: CDN$ 6.72 You Save: CDN$17.28 (72%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917.94045309154 EAN: 9780871563941 ISBN: 0871563940 Label: Sierra Club Books Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books Number Of Pages: 518 Publication Date: October 28, 1997 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Release Date: October 28, 1997 Studio: Sierra Club Books Sales Rank: 802503 Browse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: It's big (100 miles wide by 240 miles long), it's diverse (granite peaks, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes, and more than 2,000 species of plants and 500 animals), and it makes for a wonderful, inexpensive vacation. The California desert offers bird watching and backpacking, high alpine snow fields and dry salt plains, and when the rains are adequate, miles of wildflowers that take your breath away. Lynne Foster's guide makes it accessible, with desert safety tips, maps, information about public campgrounds, historical sites, and desert museums, as well as useful information such as where to get food, water, and gas. From the White-Inyo Mountains, through Death Valley, Palm Springs, and Joshua Tree National Park, down to the Mexican border, the desert awaits, sere and stark, but not at all barren. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - maps are terrible, information on hiking/wilderness is poorDon't buy this if you just want a hiking/camping guide. Here's why: * The author himself mentions that 50% of the book isn't really related to hiking ("adventuring" as in the book's title) * The hikes are not described well. There are no total trail distances given. * There are no maps of trails/trailheads/wilderness areas, and that's what REALLY bugs me. There are virtually no maps in this book. The maps that are there are VERY pitiful. Without maps, this book is virtually useless to me. I would recommend that you look around at other books available if you're after a good hiking guide. Since the average rating is currently at 4.5 I'm gonna give this a 1 to try to add some balance to things... Rating:  - desert california in one volumeUpdated since I bought my 1987 edition this book is a wonderful one-volume introduction to California's desert regions. My battered, coffee-stained, spine-broken copy is the best testimony to its usefulness I can give. The overlong introductory section cuts down on space for regional descriptions but the advice is worth reading, especially the section on safety. Very strong on regions ouside the well-known parks the author encourages visitors to explore and hike on their own. The book is a well-rounded blend of information on flora, fauna, geology, history, hiking and 4WD touring. If you are new to desert exploration this book will break you in easily and safely. Rating:  - Very useful guide that's fun to read.Lynne Foster has done a great job here, describing many trips and day visits into nearly every corner of California's beautiful deserts. Nearly every region I am familiar with, she has covered quite well. Most people don't know the lonely horizons and vast silences awaiting those who get off the superhighways; the land is incredibly beautiful and not a little dangerous. Heed her words of caution, then take the book and your camera and see for yourself. Makes great armchair reading, too! |
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