Desert Journal by Raymond Bridgman Cowles. A good read from 1977

I have enjoyed reading Desert Journal. Reflections of a Naturalist which was written by Raymond Cowles (1896-1975) and published shortly after his death. It has been on my ‘to read’ pile for a couple of years. I have written before about Cowles and his pioneering work on behavioural thermoregulation in desert reptiles which was done from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s in California. I learnt a great deal about the Californian desert and its inhabitants and of how he became an ardent promoter