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2) Deserts
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explores the desert ecology, discusses how some are formed, and explains how people, animals, and plants survive there.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine over three million square miles of sand dunes that are as tall as a ten-story building. That place is real -- it's the Sahara Desert! Vast, yes! And home to fascinating creatures such as ostriches and fennec foxes as well as amazing plant life. Readers will also learn about the famous trade routes of the past with caravans of up to 10,000 camels, European explorers to the region (some very unlucky ones), and native populations like the Imazighen"--...
6) Deserts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the characteristics of different types of deserts around the world, the plants and animals that inhabit them, and the various issues that will affect the future of these areas.
Author
Series
Yue zi wei volume 28
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
A collection of bread maker bread and sweets recipes. In addition to traditional recipes, there are many creative recipes that incorporates ingredients such as fresh vegetables and sea salt.
10) Erak's ransom
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English
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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.
11) Never
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Language
English
Description
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
15) Lost
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Because she never gives up hope that her beagle, lost in the desert, will be found, the young girl keeps something special in her pocket for her dog.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in six deserts on five continents that evoke the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-sixth of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, Will Atkins decided to travel in six of the world's...
17) Los desiertos
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
¿Sabías que el cactus saguaro puede contener 201 galones (761 litros) de agua? Los desiertos son lugares que reciben menos de 10 pulgadas (25 centímetros) de lluvia, nieve y niebla por año. Descubre más datos intrigantes en "Los desiertos, uno de los libros de Explorando los ecosistemas.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A man is driving through the Australian outback. His car breaks down, miles away from any help. He is surrounded by nothing but dry earth and bare trees, which offer very little shade. He knows he won't make it if he tries to walk to a town. This is the beginning of Ricky Megee's 71-day ordeal in the Australian wilderness. Iron Will: Surviving the Desert relates the experiences of five people alone in deserts around the world, and how they made it...
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