Awards

• Nominated for PROSE Awards 2002
• Winner of IndieFab awards (Environment) 2002
• Winner of Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2003

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Michael Mares has been looking at deserts, and seeing more than most. Sometimes, in fact, [he sees] what no one has seen before...He allows the marvels of nature and evolution to carry [his] narrative. But it's also his story, an autobiography of sorts about the hardships and thrills of field work. This is smart reading for those who dream of doing science in the field.--Scott LaFee San Diego Union-Tribune (06/16/2002)

Most people think of deserts as hot, dry and barren wastelands. However, this new book, which centers on Michael Mares's long career as a biologist in remote deserts, reveals them to be teeming with life...This book offers plenty of adventure--from Mares barely finding his way out of a deep cave while looking for bats in Mexico, to almost being struck by falling 100-foot trees in Costa Rica, to wild jeep-riding in an Iranian desert, to being lost in Argentina's thorn desert, to attacks by kissing bugs. ..From continual denial that he worked for the CIA while in Iran to the discovery of a new species of mouse in Argentina, the book is loaded with fascinating stories well off the tourist track. -- Lynn Arave Salt Lake City Desert News (06/07/2002)

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Michael A. Mares is Curator of Mammals and Director of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma. Stephen Jay Gould was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books, including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle (both from Harvard).

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