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List Price: $23.95Amazon.com's Price: $21.55 You Save: $2.40 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.94870453
EAN: 9780870814099
ISBN: 0870814095
Label: University Press of Colorado
Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 378
Publication Date: 1995-10
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Sales Rank: 122533
Studio: University Press of Colorado
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Product Description:
In the fall of 1994, Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park to be added to the U.S. park system. Spanning more than three million acres, Death Valley is the largest park in the contiguous United States and features a stunningly diverse array of natural attractions.
The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park is the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. It covers the park’s geologic history and also reviews the human history of the valley, form the Indians and first western explorers to the prospectors, miners, and present-day visitors.
Shrubs, trees, and wildflowers are described along with where and when they can be found. The habitats and lifestyles of the wildlife, from the rangy coyote to the tiny springsnail, are shared with the reader.
The Explorer’s Guide contains short walks, day hikes, backpacking trips, and numerous descriptive road logs that lead explorers into the wilderness backcountry of mines, ghost towns, cactus gardens, incredible scenic vistas, and desert mysteries.
Written by two acknowledged desert naturalists, explorers, and conservationists, The Explorer’s Guide is the only book you’ll need for an all-encompassing experience in Death Valley National Park.
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This book is a great resource tool. A fairly inclusive area guide with historical, geological and physical details. There are very few locality specific guides available for plant identification. This book has a fairly detailed plant section without falling into the text book category.
I purchased this book for helping us plan a 5 day stay in Stove Pipe Wells. Well worth the money spent.
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We planned a week exploring around Death Valley based on this book. Not visiting the touristy places that you can find on any map, but exploring canyons that don't get nearly as much traffic. Maybe it was partially because the book hasn't been updated in awhile, but the descriptions of the places were wildly different from what we found on the ground.
This guy was a Superintendant there for a few years, and thought he'd write a book -- big deal. Coming out of one canyon where he described ... Read More
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This book provides a good general introduction to Death Valley, but lacks detail on hiking routes. If you're going to be hiking Death Valley, Michel Digonnet's "Hiking Death Valley: A Guide to Its Natural Wonders & Mining Past" provides better details. The Bryans' book covers more locations, but provides less detail on each.
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For a general introduction to DV and several of its scenic roadways, unpaved roads, and hiking trails, it's not bad at all. Of course, you always need a good topographic map(s) of the park as well, and the latest information from the rangers, as roads wash out, and trails become blocked or impassible. Only a fool would explore DV, even by car or 4WD, with only the tiny maps in a guide such as this.
While motor vehicle travelers can get by with plenty of water, a full-size spare, a recently ... Read More
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We picked up a copy of "The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley" and found this book to be a fantastic resource for our visit! The book is very comprehensive in nature, with detailed descriptions of drives along ALL the roads in the park. It turned out that during our visit in March 2005, a large number of the roads through the park were closed due to storm damage from this winter's record rains, so the book was truly a godsend in figuring out alternate routes through the park.
Another great feature ... Read More
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