The desert year / Joseph Wood Krutch ; decorations by Rudolf Freund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1893-1970. Krutch.

Contributor:

Joseph Wood.

Series:

Sightline books.

Sightline books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Southwest, New.

Natural history.

Desert ecology--Southwest, New.

Desert ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Iowa Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award-winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. Although Krutch-often called the Cactus Walden-came to the desert relatively late in his life, his curiosity and delight in his surroundings abound throughout The Desert Year, whether he is marveling at the majesty of the endless dry sea, at flowers carpeting the desert floor, or at the unexpected appearance of an army of frogs after a heavy rain. Krutch's trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environm

Contents:

Contents; Why I Came; What It Looks Like; How to See It; How Some Others Live There; Desert Rain; What the Desert Is Good For; The Contemplative Toad; From a Mountaintop; The Individual and the Species; In Search of an Autumn; Tour of Inspection; The Metaphor of the Grasslands; Spring; A Bird in the Bush; Undiscovered Country; Postscript

Notes:

Originally published: New York : W. Sloane Associates, c1952.

ISBN:

1-58729-947-X

OCLC:

699521059