The Desert Year (Sightline Books) ePub download
by Joseph Wood Krutch
- Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
- ISBN: 1587299011
- ISBN13: 978-1587299018
- ePub: 1163 kb | FB2: 1805 kb
- Language: English
- Category: Nature & Ecology
- Publisher: University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition (November 28, 2010)
- Pages: 278
- Rating: 4.5/5
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The Desert Year (Sightline Books).
The Desert Year (Sightline Books). In his unwavering insistence, to the very end of his life, on the primacy of freedom, purpose, will, play and joy, and in the kinship of the human with all forms of life, he defended those values which form, I believe, the meaning of mankind's history as well as that aspiration toward civilization which is history's only élan vital.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Joseph Wood Krutch was the Thoreau of the desert, of the Southwest, of Tucson. This book should be kept in print. 6 people found this helpful. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed . 5 people found this helpful.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Joseph Wood Krutch was the Thoreau of the desert, of the Southwest, of Tucson.
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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.
The Desert Year book. Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award winning "The Desert Year" is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. Although KrutchOCooften called the Cactus WaldenOCocame 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 s Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award winning "The Desert Year" is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound.
Joseph Wood Krutch (/kruːtʃ/; November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he was. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he was educated at the University of Tennessee and received a P. in English literature from Columbia University. After serving in the army in 1918, he traveled in Europe for a year with friend Mark Van Doren
Joseph Wood Krutch, American author Recipient Richard Prentice Ettinger medal, 1964; Emerson-Thoreau medal American Academy Arts and Science, 1967. The desert year (Viking explorer books)
Joseph Wood Krutch, American author Recipient Richard Prentice Ettinger medal, 1964; Emerson-Thoreau medal American Academy Arts and Science, 1967. The desert year (Viking explorer books). Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch’s Burroughs Award–winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound.
In this enduring book, Joseph Wood Krutch has written a series of delightful and wise reflections - one for each . Joseph Wood Krutch came to the desert in his middle years - a man of letters who had spent his entire adult life in the cities and countryside of the Northeast.
In this enduring book, Joseph Wood Krutch has written a series of delightful and wise reflections - one for each month of the year - stemming from thoughts on nature. There is great variety here - from the microbe to the moon, from the raindrop to the oak - but the author's pervading consideration is the relationship of man to his universe. He found that the desert was exactly right for him - that he was healthier and happier in its bright, dry air than ever before.
Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award-winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is. .
Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award-winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. I recommend this book equally to old desert hands, and to those who have not yet had the good fortune to wander among the cacti, heat blasted arroyos, and sheltering canyons of the Southwest. -Christopher Norment, author, Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows "In prose that holds something of the clear, dry light.
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.