The Deserts of California

A California Field Atlas

Obi Kaufmann

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Heyday Books
15 February 2024

Arid zones, deserts; Conservation of the environment

A magnificent illustrated journey into California's famed deserts and the astonishingly abundant life they contain.

2023 Glenn Goldman Award Winner for California Lifestyle, Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller!

From Obi Kaufmann, author-illustrator of the best-selling California Field Atlas, comes a grand adventure through time, geography, and ecology in California's deserts. Of a piece with his richly illustrated books The Forests of California and The Coasts of California, this volume features hundreds of vivid watercolor maps and illustrations, blending art and science to breathtaking effect. Journeying through the Great Basin, Mojave, Colorado, and Sonoran Deserts, Kaufmann pays special attention to national and state parks and monuments, and to the dozens of wilderness areas that reveal the underappreciated natural abundance of California's arid lands.

From Joshua Tree to Death Valley, these deserts full of life, as Kaufmann evokes them, are perfect places for meditating on our future, and for imagining a California that might thrive beyond the age of climate breakdown. The Deserts of California is a canonical entry into the literature of the American deserts, uniquely colorful and celebratory, and abounding in hope and wonder.

By: Obi Kaufmann
Imprint: Heyday Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781597146180
ISBN 10: 1597146188
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 15 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), and The Coasts of California (2022), all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com.

Reviews for The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas

Praise for The Coasts of California (2022) and The Forests of California (2020) by Obi Kaufmann: A call to action-full of beautiful watercolor renderings of both landscape and data. -Los Angeles Times Obi Kaufmann's books are like bibles to me. They are, honestly, the outdoor guides I've looked for for decades. They're beautifully drawn, written, printed and bound, and they explain California's natural beauty better than anything I've read before. -Dave Eggers Swirls research with poetry, the personal and human with the collective and ecological ... -Mother Jones As a reader you are invited to join him on a journey of discovery-not as a passenger but as an active partner. -San Francisco Chronicle Everyone in the state should have this gorgeous book on their bookshelf. -CBS San Francisco