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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... Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests, and several shorter articles about Leopold's life and thought.
... Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests, and several shorter articles about Leopold's life and thought.
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Aldo and his father journeyed on their own to Yellowstone Park, and enjoyed an epic big-game hunt in the mountains east of the park.6 It would not be Aldo's last taste of the West. For all that Leopold would eventually write about his ...
Aldo and his father journeyed on their own to Yellowstone Park, and enjoyed an epic big-game hunt in the mountains east of the park.6 It would not be Aldo's last taste of the West. For all that Leopold would eventually write about his ...
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He arrived there, green as the mountain cienegas, in July 1909. Forest headquarters were at Springerville, on the volcanic southern rim of the Colorado Plateau, between the pinyon- juniper range and the ponderosa pine forest, ...
He arrived there, green as the mountain cienegas, in July 1909. Forest headquarters were at Springerville, on the volcanic southern rim of the Colorado Plateau, between the pinyon- juniper range and the ponderosa pine forest, ...
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It was apparently here that he and his fellow cruiser shot the mother wolf that figures so prominently in "Thinking Like A Mountain." 12 But it would be years, and many an antiwolf campaign later, before he would come to regret the ...
It was apparently here that he and his fellow cruiser shot the mother wolf that figures so prominently in "Thinking Like A Mountain." 12 But it would be years, and many an antiwolf campaign later, before he would come to regret the ...
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Courtship was no easy matter when one's job took one to distant mountains and when one's beloved lived seventy miles, a mountain range, and an unreliable railroad line away. Aldo, however, was persistent, making effective use of the ...
Courtship was no easy matter when one's job took one to distant mountains and when one's beloved lived seventy miles, a mountain range, and an unreliable railroad line away. Aldo, however, was persistent, making effective use of the ...
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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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| 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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