A Sand County Almanac : With other Essays on Conservation from `Round River' Paperback / softback
by Aldo Leopold
Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz
Part of the Galaxy Books series
Paperback / softback
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First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside;another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in whichLeopold addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finch's The Primal Place, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was forty years ago.
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:286 pages, numerous text illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:06/03/1968
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- ISBN:9780195007770
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:286 pages, numerous text illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:06/03/1968
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195007770
