Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 pages The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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... River , which Oxford University Press pub- lished in 1953. Some of the essays from Round River ( " A Man's Leisure Time , " " Country , " " Natural History — The Forgotten Science , " " The Deer Swath , " " Deadening , " " Conservation ...
... River , which Oxford University Press pub- lished in 1953. Some of the essays from Round River ( " A Man's Leisure Time , " " Country , " " Natural History — The Forgotten Science , " " The Deer Swath , " " Deadening , " " Conservation ...
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... River floodplain , son , brother , husband , father , friend , hunter , bowmaker , . . . . A Sand County Almanac , on the other hand , is much more than Aldo Leopold ; it has achieved the independent life of all great art and philosophy ...
... River floodplain , son , brother , husband , father , friend , hunter , bowmaker , . . . . A Sand County Almanac , on the other hand , is much more than Aldo Leopold ; it has achieved the independent life of all great art and philosophy ...
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... River ) , in an effort to indicate how it may . " The Building of " The Land Ethic , ' " by Curt Meine is a ge- netic study . As Meine points out , ' The Land Ethic " ( which , he correctly claims , is " Leopold's most important essay ...
... River ) , in an effort to indicate how it may . " The Building of " The Land Ethic , ' " by Curt Meine is a ge- netic study . As Meine points out , ' The Land Ethic " ( which , he correctly claims , is " Leopold's most important essay ...
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... River lay ice-locked in its winter channel. Yet, in Leopold's eyes, no land was without promise. "In country, as in people," he once wrote, "a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and ...
... River lay ice-locked in its winter channel. Yet, in Leopold's eyes, no land was without promise. "In country, as in people," he once wrote, "a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and ...
Contents
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II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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