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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I thank Alice Van Deburg, acquisitions manager at the University of Wisconsin Press, who immediately saw the importance of a volume such as this and energetically facilitated its completion. I thank Frances Moore Lappé for her ...
I thank Alice Van Deburg, acquisitions manager at the University of Wisconsin Press, who immediately saw the importance of a volume such as this and energetically facilitated its completion. I thank Frances Moore Lappé for her ...
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How can land, under science — a most important qualification — yield an aesthetic harvest? In "The Land Aesthetic," I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics, natural beauty, taste in natural objects, and so on, ...
How can land, under science — a most important qualification — yield an aesthetic harvest? In "The Land Aesthetic," I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics, natural beauty, taste in natural objects, and so on, ...
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More important, it also ties many of the essays to the author's life experiences. Hence, it not only reveals the author's own sense of the organic connection of the essays to one another, it unifies them with the odyssey of the author's ...
More important, it also ties many of the essays to the author's life experiences. Hence, it not only reveals the author's own sense of the organic connection of the essays to one another, it unifies them with the odyssey of the author's ...
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He had mismeasured an important baseline, mismanaged the camp, imposed his own demanding standards of outdoor etiquette on his crew, and ignored the experience of veteran timber cruisers in the team.
He had mismeasured an important baseline, mismanaged the camp, imposed his own demanding standards of outdoor etiquette on his crew, and ignored the experience of veteran timber cruisers in the team.
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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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