The Voice of the Desert Author:Joseph Wood Krutch This book explores the rich, intriguing, unexpected variety of life in the desert of America's Southwest. It is both for lovers of natural history and for those who enjoy the ruminations of a wise mind. Irwin Edman once remarked, "Krutch is a sound naturalist in a philosophical rather tahn the merely botanical and biological sense."...joyful, wi... more »se and witty credo by a man who knows that the proper study of mankind extends to all of nature.« less