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The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes (Desert Places)
Susan J. Tweit
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Description for The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes (Desert Places)
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 155 x 5. Weight in Grams: 184.
It is a high valley edged by serrated peaks, a remote expanse the size of Connecticut lying, as if forgotten, between two mountain ranges. Here, North America's tallest sand dunes blow against glacier-gouged summits, the Rio Grande begins its long journey from snowflake to saltwater, and vast reaches of desert scrub hide verdant pocket wetlands. Colorado's San Luis Valley is not a place for the timid. Sizzling hot in summer, frigid cold in winter, this huge landscape is humbling in its openness, a place defined by the rhythms of nature, nd by the thrust and parry of male courting female ... Read more
It is a high valley edged by serrated peaks, a remote expanse the size of Connecticut lying, as if forgotten, between two mountain ranges. Here, North America's tallest sand dunes blow against glacier-gouged summits, the Rio Grande begins its long journey from snowflake to saltwater, and vast reaches of desert scrub hide verdant pocket wetlands. Colorado's San Luis Valley is not a place for the timid. Sizzling hot in summer, frigid cold in winter, this huge landscape is humbling in its openness, a place defined by the rhythms of nature, nd by the thrust and parry of male courting female ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816524242
SKU
V9780816524242
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