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 United States of America Frontispiece photograph courtesy of Robert A. McCabe Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Companion to A sand county almanac. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948.
... the United States of America Frontispiece photograph courtesy of Robert A. McCabe Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Companion to A sand county almanac. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948.
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A Sand County Almanac — a bestseller, the environmentalist's bible, and a twentieth-century landmark in a genre of American letters pioneered by Thoreau and advanced by Marsh and Muir 3 Introduction Introduction.
A Sand County Almanac — a bestseller, the environmentalist's bible, and a twentieth-century landmark in a genre of American letters pioneered by Thoreau and advanced by Marsh and Muir 3 Introduction Introduction.
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Roderick Nash devoted a chapter to Aldo Leopold in his celebrated Wilderness and the American Mind (now in its third revised edition) and Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the ...
Roderick Nash devoted a chapter to Aldo Leopold in his celebrated Wilderness and the American Mind (now in its third revised edition) and Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the ...
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... in addition to the Englishman Henry Salt, two Americans, Edward Payson Evans and J. Howard Moore, had also speculated, in the light of Darwin's theory, about extending ethics beyond the sphere of human relationships.
... in addition to the Englishman Henry Salt, two Americans, Edward Payson Evans and J. Howard Moore, had also speculated, in the light of Darwin's theory, about extending ethics beyond the sphere of human relationships.
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Wallace Stegner's "The Legacy of Aldo Leopold" provides a panoramic perspective on the state of the American environment and the American environmental state of mind nearly four decades after A Sand County Almanac.
Wallace Stegner's "The Legacy of Aldo Leopold" provides a panoramic perspective on the state of the American environment and the American environmental state of mind nearly four decades after A Sand County Almanac.
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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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| 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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