In "Journey into the Desert", we make an adventure-filled trip through one of the harshest, yet most spectacular habitats on Earth - the Sonoran Desert of southern USA. We encounter a host of hardy animals and plants that have found the most extraordinary ways of coping with the extreme conditions: a lizard that squirts blood from its eyes, scorpions that glow in the dark, a latter-day dinosaur with a venomous bite, cactuses as tall as houses. The vivid first-person account is illustrated by the author's own breathtaking scenery: vast, ancient volcanoes and rocky canyons that are etched deep into the Earth's surface. John Brown is a wildlife cameraman who has worked all over the world. His travels have taken him from freezing Arctic to steaming rainforest, and from tropical islands to baking-hot deserts, where he has filmed a huge variety of extraordinary wildlife. He lives in Oxfordshire.

 

This book is part of a book series called Journey .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

The author, John H. Brown, was born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1940 and was brought up in wartime Britain. He lived and worked in Weymouth until 1965 when he moved to Southend-on-Sea, Essex, married a local girl and has lived there ever since. John has four older sisters, the youngest being two years his senior. As they were so close in age they went to bed around about the same time, from which came the storytelling - if his sister was unable to get to sleep, John would make up stories to tell her!