3 books
Raymond B. Cowles
Raymond Cowles grew up in South Africa, studied at UCLA, and more or less invented the study of how cold-blooded animals manage their own body heat — the reason we know a lizard moves between sun and shade to hold…
Philip L. Fradkin
In November 1934, a twenty-year-old kid from Los Angeles rode two burros into Davis Gulch on the Escalante and never came out. The burros were found penned in the canyon. He wasn’t. He’d been wandering the Southwest since he was…
M. Kat Anderson
The California the Spanish and then the Americans walked into looked like untouched abundance, and Anderson’s book shows it was a garden. Indigenous Californians burned meadows on schedule, coppiced hazel and redbud so the shoots would come back straight enough…
