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Penguin Books, 1960. Trade paperback. Very Good. 112x16x80. Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 â 1970) was an American author, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest. Krutch wrote several books about natural issues of ecology, the southwestern desert environment, and the natural history of the Grand Canyon, winning renown as a naturalist, nature writer, and an early conservationist. Like Aldo Leopold, who greatly influenced him, Krutch believed that human beings must move beyond purely human centered conceptions of "conservation" and learn to value nature for its own sake. Historian Donald Worster commented that Krutch "became a kind of pantheist or ethical mystic, caught up in the joy of belonging to something greater than one's self." Upon his death, The New York Times lauded Krutch in an editorial, declaring that concern for the environment by many young Americans "should turn a generation unfamiliar with Joseph Wood Krutch to…
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The Desert Year Paperback - 1960
by Joseph Wood Krutch; Joseph Wood Krutch (Other)
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- Title The Desert Year
- Author Joseph Wood Krutch; Joseph Wood Krutch (Other)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date September 12, 1960
- ISBN 9780670001439 / 0670001430
- Dewey Decimal Code 508.79
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The desert year / [by]Joseph Wood Krutch; decorations by Rudolf Freund
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New York: Viking, 1975. 10th edition. Softcover. Includes previous owner's signature. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 270p.: illustrations. Subjects: Natural history -- Southwest, New. Desert animals. Desert plants. Desert ecology -- Southwest, New. New Southwest.
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New York: The Viking Press, 1962. 4th edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers slightly dust-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 270 p. Subjects: Natural history -- Southwest, New. Desert animals. Desert plants. Desert ecology. Natural history. New Southwest.
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New York: Viking Press, 1972. Book. Illus. by Freund, Rudolf. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Eighth printing. 8vo. Soft cover. 270 p. Black and white illustrations. A naturalist and philosopher views the pattern of the desert world of the American Southwest. Edgewear. Very good..
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