Reference & Reading

Here is a list of books that provide information on the desert and travel. You can also find more information at the various parks you visit.

Lynne Foster. Adventuring in the California Desert. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. Revised edition: October 28, 1997. ISBN #: 978-0-87156-394-1.

Michael Collier. An Introduction to the Geology of Death Valley. Death Valley Natural History Association. 1990. ISBN #: 1878900137.

John Mc Phee. Assembling California. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. February 1, 1994. ISBN #: 0374523932.

Marc Reisner. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Penguin (Non-Classics). Revised edition: January 1, 1993. ISBN #: 0140178244.

Automobile Club of Southern California. California Desert Areas. 1996.

Edmund C. Jaeger. The California Deserts. Stanford University Press. 4th Edition: September 1983. ISBN #: 0804712239.

Carobeth Laird. The Chemehuevis. Banning, California: Malki Museum Press. 1976.

Roxanna S. Ferris. Death Valley Wildflowers. Death Valley Natural History Association. 1983. ISBN #: 1878900072.

Barry Lopez. Desert Notes/River Notes. New York: Avon Books. 1976. ISBN #: ISBN-10: 0380711109.

Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968. ISBN #: 0345326490.

Joseph Wood Krutch. The Desert Year. Univ of Arizona Press. March 1985. ISBN #: 0816509239

Peggy Larson. The Deserts of the Southwest: A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide. Sierra Club Books. 2nd edition: June 6, 2000. ISBN #: 978-1-57805-052-9.

James A. MacMahon. Deserts: The Audubon Society Nature Guides. New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1985. ISBN #: 0394731395.

Gary Nabhan. Gathering the Desert. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1985. ISBN #: 0816510148.

Bill Cunningham and Polly Cunningham. Hiking California's Desert Parks. Helena, Montana: Falcon. Second edition: September 1, 2006. ISBN #: 0762735457.

Mary Austin. The Land of Little Rain. University of New Mexico Press. 1974. ISBN #: 0826303585

David Darlington. The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert. Owl Books. November 15, 1997. ISBN #: 0805055940.

Laurence M. Klauber. Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2 edition: July 31, 1997. ISBN #: 0520210565

Aldo Leopold. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press. June 1989. ISBN #: 019505928X.

Randall Henderson. Sun, Sand, and Solitude: Vignettes from the Notebook of a Veteran Desert Reporter. Los Angeles: Westernlore. 1968.

John McKinney. Walking California's Desert Parks: A Day Hiker's Guide. Wilderness Press. March 31, 2006. ISBN #: 0899973892.

John McKinney and Cheri Rae. Walking East Mojave. Harper Collins. 1994. ISBN #: 0062585126

Russell and Kathlynn Spencer. Windshield Adventuring Through the Mojave Desert. Published by authors. 1997. ISBN #: 096640551X

Janice Emily Bowers. 100 Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest. Western National Parks Association. 1989. ISBN #: 091140872X.

Dennis Casebier. Mojave Road Guide, Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company. Essex, California. October 1999. ISBN #: 0914224298

James W. Cornett. Desert Palm Oasis. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Santa Barbara, California, Companion Press. 1989. ISBN #: 0944197108

James Cornett. The Joshua Tree. Nature Trails Press. 1999. ISBN #: 0937794309

Brad Schram. Birder's Guide to Southern California: Lane/ABA Birdfinding Guide (4th Ed.). Boulder, Colorado, American Birding Association, Inc. 1998. ISBN #: 1878788175