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OverviewThis special edition of the highly acclaimed A Sand County Almanac commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as full of beauty and 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.The volume includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another section that gathers together the informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled around the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in which Leopold addresses more formally 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aldo Leopold , Robert Finch , Charles W. Schwartz , Robert FinchPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.310kg ISBN: 9780195059281ISBN 10: 019505928 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 June 1989 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsBy a born naturalist, true sportsman and able writer. Delightful essays....[Leopold] develops a fine concept of conservation, not economic, but basically ethical, urging the need for an ecological conscience. Recommended. --Library Journal Outdoor prose writing at its best....A trenchant book, full of beauty and vigor and bite. --The New York Times Book Review We have Sand County Almanac to demonstrate just how exceptional Leopold was in his highly informed passion for land. [This] handsome new commemorative edition will be welcomed by afficionados whose paperback copies have gone the way of paper acid. It contains the fine original drawings of Charles W. Schartz, and is highly recommended to anyone who might care to glimpse the plateau forests of Arizona in 1909, the green lagoons of the Colorado Delta in 1922, or the guacamaja parrot flocks of Chihuahua in 1936 through the eyes of a man who was there in body and spirit. --The New York Times Book Review To read this book is not only to acquire much useful information, but to develop a keener eye and a sharper ear for the world of nature and a greater respect for the land. --The Christian Science Monitor We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir. --San Francisco Chronicle We may count ourselves lucky to have this final testament of a man who was not only an expert in forestry, ecology, and game management, but an exceptionally sensitive and subtle appreciator and communicator. --Commonweal One of the most beautiful, heart-warming and important nature books to appear in years. --The Chicago Tribune There is a rudeness and vigor to Leopold's writing that goes directly to the heart of the subject and to the heart of the reader. His Almanac is one of the seminal works of the environmental movement and much admired....As important a book today as when it was first published in 1949. --The Boston Globe There will be many for whom this special edition, commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, will be their first and long overdue encounter with the Sand County Almanac. For many it will undoubtedly be a joyful encounter, not least because it is so well written and because of the way in which the personality of Leopold engages so directly with the reader as he traces the monthly changes in the Wisconsin countryside. --The Times (London) A Sand County Almanac seems unassuming, a collection of poetic vignettes about run-down farmland and wilderness trips seasoned with erudite historical reflections. Yet it has sold over a million copies, and it has added a significant ethical concept to the prophecies of Thoreau, John Muir and other voices in the wilderness...Oxford University Press's handsome new commemorative edition will be welcomed by afficionados... --The New York Times Book Review Excellent....One of the classics in the field of ecology. --Jeff Poniewaz, University of Wisconsin Essays - slight and charming enough- which range from the descriptive to the philosophical, and which would have very limited appeal to those who enjoy random bits of nature. The book falls into three sections:- Part I- the Almanac of a week-end refuge on a Wisconsin farm, round the seasons; II- sketches taking issue with conservation as it is practised, based on some forty years of observation; III- his creed of conservation, as an extension of ethics from people to land. The second section expands the regional interest from the Wisconsin locale of the first section, to the far cry of Mexico to Manitoba. He pulls no punches in his attack on the degeneration of sports, with bigger and better gadgets, in his opinion that most conservation is local alleviation, and that land health is better than land doctoring. But unfortunately, the general flavor of his writing, and the appearance of the book, with its charming sketches by Charles W. Schwartz, do not give one a sense of actually challenging the reader. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationAldo Leopold, long a member of the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Hall of Fame, was posthumously honored in 1978 with the John Burroughs Medal in tribute to a lifetime of work in conservation and, in particular, for A Sand County Almanac. Robert Finch is the author of The Primal Place and Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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