{"product_id":"2940148631163","title":"The Desert World (Illustrated)","description":"• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.\u003cbr\u003e• The area of our present work would be very limited if we understood the word Desert in its more rigorous signification; for we should then have only to consider those desolate wildernesses which an inclement sky and a sterile soil seem to exclude for ever from man’s dominion. But, by a license which usage authorizes, we are able to attribute to this term a much more extended sense; and to call Deserts not only the sandy seas of Africa and Asia, the icy wastes of the Poles, and the inaccessible crests of the great mountain-chains; but all the regions where man has not planted his regular communities or permanent abodes; where earth has never been appropriated, tilled, and subjected to cultivation; where Nature has maintained her inviolability against the encroachments of human industry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Five Star Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072765640944,"sku":"2940148631163","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148631163_p0.jpg?v=1763705992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148631163","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}