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Dry : life without water / Ehsan Masood, Daniel Schaffer, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006Description: 192 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674022246
  • 9780674022249
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.25 22
LOC classification:
  • GF55 .D78 2006
Contents:
Why dry? -- Sudan's camel healers -- Burkina Faso's forest nurseries -- Innovation in Namibia -- Wetland conservation the Maasai way -- Green and dry in China -- Drought-proofing with a difference in India -- Pakistan's dams miracle -- High and dry in Nepal -- Chile's fog catchers -- New life for Brazil's goat town -- Moving mountains in Mexico -- Going for gold in the Andes -- Saving Egypt's songbird -- Reclaiming Jordan's Badia -- The wisdom of Morocco's women -- Oman's rose gardens.
Review: "For 1 billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in Dry - those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, surviving between craggy mountains, near oases, or close to well-springs surrounded by cracked earth or shifting sands." "This illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, trapping and often dreaming about the water that life requires - all the while taking great care that no form of life, plant or animal, benefits at the expense of another." "In a world of finite resources, these stories are a source of hope and wonder. Documented over many years by photographers, scientists and writers from four continents they provide a rare window to the diversity and the fragility of life in the dry lands of earth."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index.

Why dry? -- Sudan's camel healers -- Burkina Faso's forest nurseries -- Innovation in Namibia -- Wetland conservation the Maasai way -- Green and dry in China -- Drought-proofing with a difference in India -- Pakistan's dams miracle -- High and dry in Nepal -- Chile's fog catchers -- New life for Brazil's goat town -- Moving mountains in Mexico -- Going for gold in the Andes -- Saving Egypt's songbird -- Reclaiming Jordan's Badia -- The wisdom of Morocco's women -- Oman's rose gardens.

"For 1 billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in Dry - those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, surviving between craggy mountains, near oases, or close to well-springs surrounded by cracked earth or shifting sands." "This illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, trapping and often dreaming about the water that life requires - all the while taking great care that no form of life, plant or animal, benefits at the expense of another." "In a world of finite resources, these stories are a source of hope and wonder. Documented over many years by photographers, scientists and writers from four continents they provide a rare window to the diversity and the fragility of life in the dry lands of earth."--BOOK JACKET.

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