A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

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Publisher Description

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 which Leopold 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.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
1968
December 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Oxford University Press
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
3
MB

Customer Reviews

Tom d'Indy ,

Almanac or Poetry Book?

Sometimes too poetic, often hard to decipher. Sad that much of the wildlife described is gone now. In all, however, it’s a good read.

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