The Sagebrush Ocean. A Natural History of the Great Basin.1989. Illustr. XIV, 248 p.4to.Cloth.

Contents: The Setting: The Great Basin Desert (The Four Great Basins/The Making of a Desert)/ Biogeography: Island Mountains and SagebrushSeas (The Relative Reality of Natural Communities/ The Dynamic Past:Great Basin/ Paleobiogeography/ Mountains as Islands)/ Between theMountains: Valleys of Silence (Playas and Salt Deserts/ Shadscale: TheNew Desert/ Ocean of Sagebrush/ Unlikely Oases: The World of Dunes/Water in the Desert: Great Basin Wetlands)/ The Basin Ranges: ForgottenMountains (The Pinon-Juniper Woodland/ Mountain Brush and Aspen Glens/Tree Line Ancients: Great Basin Subalpine Forest/ Alpine Deserts: GreatBasin Tundra)/ Transition Forests: Beyond the Cordilleras (West of theWasatch/ East of the Sierra)/ Scientific Names of Plants and Animals/Notes/ Bibliography/ Index.