John Alcock
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In a Desert Garden
Love and Death among the Insects
By John Alcock
The University of Arizona Press
When the Rains Come
A Naturalist’s Year in the Sonoran Desert
By John Alcock
The University of Arizona Press
John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Combining scientific knowledge with years of exploring the desert, he describes the variety of ways in which the wait for rain takes place—and what happens when it finally comes.
After the Wildfire
Ten Years of Recovery from the Willow Fire
By John Alcock
The University of Arizona Press
Naturalist John Alcock details the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in the lower reaches of Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains. Documenting for a decade the chaparral landscape left in the wake of the Willow fire, Alcock thrills at the renewal of the region as he hikes in and photographs plants and animals in a once-blackened wildland now teeming with resurgent life.
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