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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Page ix
... become a well - established subdiscipline of academic philosophy . I am honored to be able to place my essays alongside those of the distinguished authors included here . I have tried to fit all the essays together to form a coherent ...
... become a well - established subdiscipline of academic philosophy . I am honored to be able to place my essays alongside those of the distinguished authors included here . I have tried to fit all the essays together to form a coherent ...
Page 5
... become acquainted , at the outset , with its author . Thus the first section of this collection is called " The Author . " Here the essays of Curt Meine , Susan Flader , and Roderick Nash locate the author in progressively wider ...
... become acquainted , at the outset , with its author . Thus the first section of this collection is called " The Author . " Here the essays of Curt Meine , Susan Flader , and Roderick Nash locate the author in progressively wider ...
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... become a classic and a classic , for some , holy writ ? I am sure a little luck and good timing don't hurt . Neither does style . The appeal and the memorability of Sand County may be attributed in large measure to its 7 Introduction.
... become a classic and a classic , for some , holy writ ? I am sure a little luck and good timing don't hurt . Neither does style . The appeal and the memorability of Sand County may be attributed in large measure to its 7 Introduction.
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... become had Aldo Leopold not been a consum- mate prose stylist as well as a renowned naturalist . But neither would it have been more than a fine nature book had its author not also been a philosopher . Science , " poetry , " and ...
... become had Aldo Leopold not been a consum- mate prose stylist as well as a renowned naturalist . But neither would it have been more than a fine nature book had its author not also been a philosopher . Science , " poetry , " and ...
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... become an environmental cause célèbre a symbol of the conservation of nongame nonresources and the responsibility of agency em- ployees to guard the " biotic right " of species , however un- economic , to continuation . Wallace ...
... become an environmental cause célèbre a symbol of the conservation of nongame nonresources and the responsibility of agency em- ployees to guard the " biotic right " of species , however un- economic , to continuation . Wallace ...
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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