He stood with his back to her, staring out over the stark, lovely desert.

Big Bend is something of a wild kingdom all its own, ranging from cool, wooded canyons to stark desert.

If all goes well, I'll be in Iskenderun by two o'clock in the morning, thought Newman as the stark, barren desert flashed by outside their open window.

Powell and his men discover what he calls a "paradise of loss" - the phrase refers to erosion - in the stark desert that surrounds them.

Inland from San Diego, desertlike valleys, fragrant with orange blossoms in spring, give way first to pine-covered mountains and then, almost instantly, to stark but beautiful deserts.

After the expanse of stark brown desert, it was a relief to see it.

But essentially the surface was flat - a stark, unending desert that stretched from horizon to horizon in all directions.

Alone in the quiet, stark desert - exactly as it should be.

The cactus and xeric scrub plant community surrounding the mountain is characteristic of the stark and dry desert here.

The wallscreen behind the desk showed a stark desert: empty sand stretching to the horizon beneath a blazing sun.