Great Warm Deserts of the World

Professor of Geography, University of Oxford, since 1984; Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1995-97; currently a Delegate of Oxford University Press; author of numerous publications

• INTRODUCTION ; THE DESERTS OF NORTH AMERICA ; THE DESERTS OF SOUTH AMERICA ; THE SAHARA ; THE LIBYAN DESERT ; THE NAMIB ; THE KALAHARI AND THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN INTERIOR ; THE MIDDLE EAST ; THE DESERTS OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN ; THE DESERTS OF CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA ; AUSTRALIA ; CONCLUSIONS

The figures and the colour plates are excellent and of high quality. They are highly informative ... the author has succeeded in providing a comparatively homogenous and highly informative work on the geomorphology and climatic conditions of the warm deserts of the world. It is a most valuable treatment of these environmentally extraordinary regions.