Masood Ehsan and Daniel Schaffer (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 192pp. Numerous color photos. No remainder mark. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. From the ingenuity of the highland people of Chile's Atacama desert who use giant nets to capture water from clouds of fog, to the ancient wisdom that protects the grazing lands of Kenya's Masai, this beautifully illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, and trapping 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, where the struggle for shrinking sources of water intensifies daily, these stories--collected over three years by photographers, writers, and scientists from four continents--are a source of hope and wonder. This book contains a wealth of information and images designed to further awareness of the vast array of life that is carried on precariously yet proudly on the earth's dryest lands.

Condition: As New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. (Deserts, Ecology) A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harvard University Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial pastedowns and endpapers. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Dustjacket. First 25 pages lightly creased. Dustjacket slightly rubbed. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

Small quarto,174 pp.,colour photographs, dustwrapper. Tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, and trapping the water. In a world of finite resources, where the struggle for shrinking sources of water intensifies daily, these stories - collected over three years by photographers, writers and scientists from four continents - are a source of hope and wonder. The book includes an extensive gazetteer with eco-tourism and travel information, organisations and charities to further awareness of the vast array of life carried on precariously yet richly on the dry lands of earth.