Man, John.Gobi: Tracking the Desert. Yale University Press, 1999. An engaging travelogue of the mysterious Gobi desert and the people that inhabit it.
Mares, Michael A., and Patrick Fisher, eds.Encyclopedia of Deserts. University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Comprehensive reference to the deserts and semideserts of the world.
Sayre, April Pulley.Desert. Twenty-First Century, 1995. Exploring Earth's Biomes series, for younger readers.