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200 14$aThe desert year$b[electronic resource] /$fJoseph Wood Krutch ; decorations by Rudolf Freund
205   $a1st University of Iowa Press ed.
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (280 p.)
225 1 $aSightline books
300   $aOriginally published: New York : W. Sloane Associates, c1952.
311   $a1-58729-901-1 
327   $aContents; 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
330   $a      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
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606   $aNatural history$zSouthwest, New
606   $aDesert ecology$zSouthwest, New
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615  0$aDesert ecology
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700   $aKrutch$b Joseph Wood$f1893-1970.$0131967
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