Praise for the First Edition
"An indispensable guide for any desert visitor."--Sunset <p/> "The award-winning text includes a calendar of natural events highlighting animal migrations, full moons, and the Sonoran Desert's awesome spring flower show."--Outside Magazine <p/> "Never before has a book appeared that so deserved a place on the bookshelf of every desert aficionado. This book is destined to become the bible of Sonoran Desert nature literature."--The Desert Sun <p/> "Everything the traveler, birdwatcher, hiker, student, desert-dweller, and desert-lover will ever need to know about this region is painstakingly presented in clear prose, maps and pictures."--Rocky Mountain News <p/> "Immaculately produced. Put together by the museum's exceptional academic and curatorial staff, Natural History is a storybook, a field guide, a lay geology, a paleontology and human ecology textbook, and a handy encyclopedia--and it reads as enjoyably as fiction."--The Americus Journal