Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysThe first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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The exploitation of its marshland habitat had endangered its local existence. Aldo and Carl talked to a farmer whose fields backed up against the marsh. The farmer not only told them where they might find the pair, but gave them a ...
The exploitation of its marshland habitat had endangered its local existence. Aldo and Carl talked to a farmer whose fields backed up against the marsh. The farmer not only told them where they might find the pair, but gave them a ...
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The driving force of American development was the existence of an area of free land, and the existence of free land exerted a transforming influence not only on the frontier but on the entire nation and even on the Old World.7 Turner ...
The driving force of American development was the existence of an area of free land, and the existence of free land exerted a transforming influence not only on the frontier but on the entire nation and even on the Old World.7 Turner ...
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Though it took some of the certitude out of individual decisions and individual existence, the practice of husbandry gave Leopold a sense of belonging to something greater than himself, a 57 Aldo Leopold's Sand Country.
Though it took some of the certitude out of individual decisions and individual existence, the practice of husbandry gave Leopold a sense of belonging to something greater than himself, a 57 Aldo Leopold's Sand Country.
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 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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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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