The desert year /
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 T...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2010
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| Edition: | 1st University of Iowa Press ed. |
| Series: | Sightline books.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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
