Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: A Natural History of the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (association copy)
College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my friend, Harley Reno -- peerless naturalist. Frederick R. Gehlbach." Uncommon signed. Reno was Gehlbach's colleague at Baylor and a professor of biology. "In this engaging personal narrative, biologist Fred Gehlbach describes the stability and changes of the past century in the Borderlands' climate, landforms, and natural communities and its distinctive plans and vertebrate animals." Gehlbach received a Guggenheim for the undertaking and spent a year on the road with his family in a VW Bus exploring the border from the Rio Grande to the Pacific. He was an ornithologist and an expert in particular on Eastern screech owls, but this book shows off his generalist knowledge and distinguishes itself further for its direct conservationist stance. Octavo in brown cloth with several plates of colored photos in the interior. A fine copy in a very good jacket with rubbing and four inch- or half-inch-long tears to edges. Fine / Very good. Item #2061
ISBN: 0890961182
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