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Title: THE DESERT YEAR
By: Joseph Wood Krutch, Rudolf Freund (Illus), Patricia Hampl
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1587299011
ISBN 13: 9781587299018
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS
Pub. date: 15 March, 2010
Series: Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
Pages: 278
Description: Originally published: New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1952.
Synopsis: 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 environment of Arizona's Sonoran Desert turn to weighty questions about humanity and the precariousness of our existence, putting lie to Western denials of mind in the "lower" forms of life: "Let us not say that this animal or even this plant has 'become adapted' to desert conditions. Let us say rather that they have all shown courage and ingenuity in making the best of the world as they found it. And let us remember that if to use such terms in connection with them is a fallacy then it can only be somewhat less a fallacy to use the same terms in connection with ourselves."This edition contains 33 exacting drawings by noted illustrator Rudolf Freund. Closely tied to Krutch's uncluttered text, the drawings tell a story of ineffable beauty.
Illustrations: 33 illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Iowa Press
Returns: Returnable
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