A desert calling life in a forbidding landscape - Mares, Michael A. (Harvard University Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-306) and index
Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould -- Prologue -- Search for undiscovered life -- Immortal animals -- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters -- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar -- Winding path to field biology -- Desert at the bottom of the world -- Different actors, different scripts -- Desert in the sky -- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve -- Land of the shah -- Impenetrable land of thorns -- Devil's town -- In the shadow of the pyramids -- Naming the anonymous -- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos -- Aridity's cornucopia -- Life in the desert of salt -- Land of diamonds -- Epilogue