A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon 2nd Edition6 reviews Stephen Whitney Mountaineers Books, 1996 Concise, and yet thorough + Great book to have on the canyon for river runners + nice intro to canyon flora and fauna + best available guide to plants and wildlife             The Land of Little Rain (Dover Thrift Editions)9 reviews Mary Austin Dover Publications, 1996 Intimate & Beautiful Appraisal of Life In a Harsh Land + Land of Little Rain + Overlooked Masterpiece of Nature Writing + Makes me want to go to Death Valley             Hiking Great Basin National Park4 reviews Bruce Grubbs Falcon, 1998 Hiking Nevada's Finest + Good guide book but difficult to read + Good intro for day hikers Falcon hiking guides are usually fairly straightforward affairs. You get a route description and directions to the trailhead, and not a lot else. This compilation by Bruce Grubbs is a major exception. Full of natural history and geography this book will add to your appreciation of the region. ...             Basin and Range15 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982 GREAT BOOK- BASIN AND RANGE + Brilliant organizational idea, great information + Basin and Range - Get this book! + Very interesting for lay people interested in geology + There's more to Nevada than Las Vegas..........             Desert Survival Skills9 reviews David Alloway University of Texas Press, 2000 Great book for Texas and New Mexico Desert Travelers + Good book but limited in scope.. + Desert Survival Skills "Desert Survival Skills" is enjoyable to read and very informative. While written specifically about the Chihuahan desert (mainly Texas, New Mexico and Mexico), much of the information is applicable to other US deserts. The section on navigation is limited, but then the topic is desert survival, ...             Backpacking Nevada: From Slickrock Canyons to Granite Summits (Backpacking) Mike White Wilderness Press, 2004             The Ultimate Desert Handbook : A Manual for Desert Hikers, Campers and Travelers19 reviews Mark Johnson International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003 It's the best desert hiking and survival book.. + Ultimate Desert Handbook + Read it and be prepared! + Almost a necessity for desert backpacking             The Void, The Grid & The Sign: Traversing The Great Basin1 review William L. Fox University of Nevada Press, 2005 A quiet masterpiece about deserts In this book William Fox writes about maps, the Great Basin desert, Native American Rock Art, ecology, ranchers, the many dimensions of water in the desert, Michael Heizer's landscape projects and history. The book is unique for the tone he strikes and the desert that he writes about. This is a ...             Las Vegas Limestone Roxanna Brock Fly'n Carpet Publishing, 2000 Las Vegas Limestone is the long-awaited rock-climbing guide to limestone climbing in the Vegas area. The book includes detailed route descriptions and maps, topos, and many photographs of the best climbing areas in Vegas, including: Mount Charleston, Mount Potosi, Clark Mountain/The Monastery, the Virgin River Gorge, The Promised Land and numerous Sin City Crags (Urban Crag, Rodeo Wall, Trench ...             The Broken Land: Adventures in Great Basin Geology1 review Frank De Courten University of Utah Press, 2003 'The Broken Land' is terrific! Frank De Courten's description of the Great Basin's origins is remarkably clear and enjoyable. The author's explanations of specific geological processes are more complete and satisfying than I've found elsewhere. His style is very relaxed and he has a great gift for organization and presentation ...             The Sagebrush Ocean, Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Natural History Of The Great Basin (Max C. Fleischmann ...5 reviews Stephen Trimble University of Nevada Press, 1999 The Sagebrush Ocean : A Natural History of the Great Basin + Magnificent Overview of the "Empty Quarter" + Captures the beauty of the sagebrush desert + The Sagebrush Ocean is the best Intro to the Great Basin. + A must-read for Great Basin aficionados             Hiking and Climbing in the Great Basin National Park : A Guide to Nevada's Wheeler Peak, Mt. Moriah and the ...1 review Michael R. Kelsey Kelsey Pub, 1999 A comprehensive and informative book I'm planning a trip out to the park this fall for some hiking and climbing, and I'm glad I got my hands on this guide. The route descriptions are mostly hikes or easy scrambles up to the peaks and through the bristlecone groves. The book's got a good deal background info and history on the park, ...             Islands in the sky: The guidebook to rock climbing on Las Vegas and Great Basin limestone Dan McQuade Rockfax, 2001 Islands In The Sky: Las Vegas and Great Basin Limestone provides a phenomenal number of routes in the Las Vegas area and other parts of Nevada, as well as the Virgin River Gorge in Arizona and Clark Mountain in California Features: Covers limestone sport climbing and bouldering areas Includes 652 full route descriptions with photo diagrams and sketch topos Specifications: Length: 224 pages             Great Basin Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of the High Deserts of Nevada, Utah, and Oregon ...3 reviews Laird R Blackwell Falcon, 2006 Great For Death Valley Too! + A handy guide + Finally! A guide specifically for the Great Basin. This book provides outstanding coverage of plants of the Great Basin. My interest is primarily the Death Valley area and this book is very relevant to the parts of Death Valley above 4000 feet in altitude which is actually a very large portion of Death Valley National Park. This book fills in the ...             Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide (Climbing Guides)4 reviews Roxanna Brock, Jared Mcmillen Mountaineers Books, 2005 Solid climbing guide book I got this book for a trip to Red Rock Canyon in March 2007. It was one of two books brought by our party -- the other was Rock Climbing Red Rocks, 3rd. The books varied slightly on route descriptions (three pitches vs. two longer ones), but as always, the guide books were just a guide and actual ...             Hiking the Great Basin: The High Desert Country of California, Nevada, and Utah (Sierra Club Totebook)2 reviews John Hart Sierra Club Books for Children, 1992 good things come in small packages! + Indispensable but needs updated edition This is a book that packs a lot of worthy information into a small book that is easy to backpack. You will need detailed topo maps as those in the book are for overview only, but the hikes are exquisitely detailed and accurate. Many of the trips are in the less well-known areas of Nevada and ...             Deserts (Audubon Society Nature Guides)10 reviews James Macmahon Knopf, 1985 Excellent pictures and comprehensive + Beautiful pictures + The Audubon Society Nature Guides - Deserts + Best designed guide             The Deserts of the Southwest: A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide (Sierra Club Naturalist's Guides)1 review Lane Larson, Peggy Larson Sierra Club Books, 2000 The Southwest Deserts Come Alive We camped for a week in the Davis Mountains in west Texas in a section of the Chihuahuan desert last summer. This was not our first desert experience - we have hiked and camped across much of the Southwest over the last twenty years or so. This was an unplanned trip as we were headed toward ...             Red Rocks Climbing: Supertopos2 reviews Greg Barnes Supertopo, 2004 Great collection of Red Rocks climbs I've got every Red Rocks guide ever published, which is about 10 books, including a really old one published in Rock and Ice around 1982. This guide is not comprehensive but contains a good selection of classic long routes. One thing I enjoyed was the historical information on each route. For ...             A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests (Peterson Field Guides (R)) Houghton Mifflin, 1999 This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. It includes 53 color plates and more than 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, beetles, and other insects.