Deserts - Marco Ferrari (Author) 144 pages; Product Dimensions: 35.8 x 26.4 x 1.8 cm OPIS: Barren, desolate lands that rarely see water, deserts are places where life reaches the limit. Only a few organisms have managed to dig themselves a niche for survival. Stunted plants grow only a few centimetres every century, animals escape the scorching rays of the sun by coming out only at night or hiding amid the cooler rocks. Every living being hold the tiny but vital secrets of survival. The need to save water subjects plants, animals and, especially man to a fierce and unyielding discipline. This book represents a journey through the most intriguing and fascinating deserts on Earth: a world where wind and rain have shaped the rock and moved dunes for hundreds of kilometres, where often the intact bones of animals come to the surface millions of years after they have vanished, reminding us of when these barren wastelands were covered with forests. (NR KAT. 2)