The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert Second Edition

About this book

The Negev first published over a decade ago told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israels desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists geologists soil scientists agronomists archaeologists historians and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry hot region. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash extends the weather data another ten years presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture which has made the desert bloom.