Reviews for In the deserts of this earth

The average rating for In the deserts of this earth based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-10 00:00:00 Kimberly Bernard It's coffee table book sized, but although there are plenty of photos (color and black and white) it's more text-heavy than a typical table book. The text is written at what feels like to me as an intelligent 8th grade level. So, it explains everything very clearly, step by step and feels a bit more like a school book than an entertainment. It's not written for scientists, but for a lay-person with some interest in science. There's a lot of information in particular on the various lizards, birds, mammals, insects and even people who live in deserts around the world. There's a chapter on plants, but it's slender. There's a chapter over using where the works' deserts are, but not much in-depth info on geology, and I don't think global warming or other trends are addressed at all. I would definitely read this book before a trip to a desert as a backgrounder to make my trip more interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-11 00:00:00 Jose Gutierrez This book is written in this man's 70 plus years of life, and if it is not worth reading the work of a person that has had 70 plus years of experience I don't know that is. I found it rather intriguing that another individual cared for other things besides people as much as I do. Though his is life, and mine is form. Though I love life for it represents a form. Further there were good positions on seeking to study things besides ourselves in part they shed answers to our own mysteries, and they allow us to find the technology of life that would benefit us and harness it for as much, or as little as we would like. Though I respect some of his positions and formulations as to life and it's value to other life, and life and it's rights to another species. I still think his view is rather shallow. That may be that I see a change between creatures with very high conscious and awareness and those that do not have such skills or gifts. We are uniquely in the position to help or kill all living species on this planet, as the universe is in that same position with the universe. Their are many arguments in the text that need to be explored though so that we might have a tomorrow not just a today.