Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 pages
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The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary.

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Interpretive and Critical Essays J. Baird Callicott. an "almanac" written by someone who for all I knew might have been a farmer, could possibly do me, a philosopher steeped in the Classics, as I desperately tried to build a strange new ...
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Interpretive and Critical Essays J. Baird Callicott. Among them I especially thank Roderick Nash for his unfailing enthusiasm, encouragement, and support, Dennis Ribbens and Curt Meine for their ready advice and consultation on the ...
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Interpretive and Critical Essays J. Baird Callicott. Companion to A Sand County Almanac SCALE j. baird callicott Aldo Leopold died, suddenly, in the.
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Interpretive and Critical Essays J. Baird Callicott ... But although Sand County Almanac is ubiquitously quoted and the land ethic frequendy invoked, essays devoted to a patient study of the book as a whole or to its capstone essay, ...
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The first essay of each section is so ordered because, compared with the others in its group, it is more concrete, personal, or experiential. The essays that follow are more challenging and more specialized. Hence, there is something in ...

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Contents

Introduction
3
I The Author
15
II The Book
89
III The Upshot
155
IV The Impact
219
Appendix
275
Foreword
281
Contributors
291
Index
295
Copyright

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About the author (1987)

J. Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.

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TitleCompanion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays
AuthorJ. Baird Callicott
Editionrevised
PublisherUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987
ISBN0299112330, 9780299112332
Length320 pages
  
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