Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Oxford University Press, 1989 - Fiction - 228 pages

This 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.

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

User Review  - Scott Middleton - Goodreads

Part Dante and part Ranger Rick, Aldo Leopold is one-of-a-kind naturalist and writer every bit as interesting as John Muir, if less renowned. "A Sand County Almanac," published posthumously in 1948 ...

Review: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

User Review  - Catharine - Goodreads

I read this for book group and I think my favorite part was the gorgeous full color photographs that accompanied the book. There were some lovely descriptions, but I found myself having difficulty staying focused while reading this.

Contents

• JANUARY: 3
• MARCH: 18
• JUNE: 37
• lULY: 41
• SEPTEMBER: 53
• NOVEMBER: 66
• DECEMBER: 78
• WISCONSIN: 95
• ILLINOIS AND IOWA: 117
• CHIHUAHUA AND SONORA: 137
• OREGON AND UTAH: 154
• CONSERVATION ESTHETIC: 165
• WILDLIFE IN AMERICAN CULTURE: 177
• WILDERNESS: 188
• THE LAND ETHIC: 201
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 227

About the author

Aldo 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There; Outdoor Essays & Reflections; Oxford University Press paperback
• Illustrated by: Charles Walsh Schwartz
• Contributor: Aldo Leopold
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 019505928X, 9780195059281
• Length: 228 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Nature / Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Nature / Essays