The Living Deserts of Southern Africa by Barry Lovegrove
For generations, the deserts of southern Africa have intrigued scientists and travellers alike. Seemingly barren wastes, they in fact teem with life from ants to elephants, stone plants to the curious welwitschia, dainty dik-diks to towering gemsbok, and cart-wheeling spiders to fog-basking beetles.
Barry Lovegrove is professor emeritus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is an evolutionary physiologist, specialising in the diversity of metabolic adaptations in birds and mammals. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1987, undertook post-doctoral studies at universities in both America and Germany, and is a National Research Foundation A-rated scientist. He is also the author of Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals (Yale University Press). In 2017 he gave the prestigious Irving-Scholander Memorial Lecture in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781775847045 |
| ISBN 10 | 1775847047 |
| Title | The Living Deserts of Southern Africa |
| Author | Barry Lovegrove |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Year published | 2021-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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