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 vii
... called " Environmental Ethics " at Wisconsin State Univer- sity — Stevens Point , and had no syllabus and no textbooks . ( In retrospect , I should not have been so surprised to discover that there was no established way of proceeding ...
... called " Environmental Ethics " at Wisconsin State Univer- sity — Stevens Point , and had no syllabus and no textbooks . ( In retrospect , I should not have been so surprised to discover that there was no established way of proceeding ...
Page viii
... called ) appeared to be ubiq- uitous in scope , gargantuan in scale , and protracted in duration . Its dimensions — and character — appeared to me to shake West- ern cultural values and beliefs to the foundations . To blame greedy ...
... called ) appeared to be ubiq- uitous in scope , gargantuan in scale , and protracted in duration . Its dimensions — and character — appeared to me to shake West- ern cultural values and beliefs to the foundations . To blame greedy ...
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... called " The Author . " Here the essays of Curt Meine , Susan Flader , and Roderick Nash locate the author in progressively wider contexts . Curt Meine introduces us to the boy , the prep school and college stu- dent , the young forest ...
... called " The Author . " Here the essays of Curt Meine , Susan Flader , and Roderick Nash locate the author in progressively wider contexts . Curt Meine introduces us to the boy , the prep school and college stu- dent , the young forest ...
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... called " nature literature . " Tallmadge treats it , rather , as a specimen of " natural history " and , comparing Sand County to other classics of that genre , exposes the principal ingredients of its compact style . Finally , in this ...
... called " nature literature . " Tallmadge treats it , rather , as a specimen of " natural history " and , comparing Sand County to other classics of that genre , exposes the principal ingredients of its compact style . Finally , in this ...
Page 12
... called it to my attention and agreed to intro- duce it for publication in this volume . Nina Leopold Bradley , in consultation with other members of the Leopold family , kindly granted me permission to print it . The 1947 foreword is a ...
... called it to my attention and agreed to intro- duce it for publication in this volume . Nina Leopold Bradley , in consultation with other members of the Leopold family , kindly granted me permission to print it . The 1947 foreword is a ...
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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