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
... experience , A Sand County Almanac also recasts our questions . Most of all , I hope that this volume will press a little further into the philosophical terra incognita toward which Leopold's legacy so alluringly draws us . It was in ...
... experience , A Sand County Almanac also recasts our questions . Most of all , I hope that this volume will press a little further into the philosophical terra incognita toward which Leopold's legacy so alluringly draws us . It was in ...
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... experiences with his family and with his fellow tenants of shore , woods , marsh , and field . Readers who do not know the sand country of central Wisconsin firsthand will find in Flader's essay a vivid portrait of the larger shack ...
... experiences with his family and with his fellow tenants of shore , woods , marsh , and field . Readers who do not know the sand country of central Wisconsin firsthand will find in Flader's essay a vivid portrait of the larger shack ...
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... experience . The foreword to A Sand County Almanac ( dated March 1948 ) provides , in my judgment , a wonderfully ... experiences . Hence , it not only reveals the author's own sense of the organic connection of the essays to one ...
... experience . The foreword to A Sand County Almanac ( dated March 1948 ) provides , in my judgment , a wonderfully ... experiences . Hence , it not only reveals the author's own sense of the organic connection of the essays to one ...
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... experience has failed to obliterate or to improve upon " ( 120 ) . He describes the " unspeakable delight " he felt when , armed with his single- barreled shotgun , he brought down his first duck at the Crystal Lake Hunting Club across ...
... experience has failed to obliterate or to improve upon " ( 120 ) . He describes the " unspeakable delight " he felt when , armed with his single- barreled shotgun , he brought down his first duck at the Crystal Lake Hunting Club across ...
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... experience of veteran timber cruisers in the team . It was the first of many ego - deflating experiences that he would have to endure before coming to terms with the landscape and the job before him . Leopold put in two years on the ...
... experience of veteran timber cruisers in the team . It was the first of many ego - deflating experiences that he would have to endure before coming to terms with the landscape and the job before him . Leopold put in two years on the ...
Contents
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| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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