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I am honored to be able to place my essays alongside those of the distinguished authors included here. I have tried to fit all the essays together to form a coherent book — a chorus of distinct voices blended into a harmonious whole.
I am honored to be able to place my essays alongside those of the distinguished authors included here. I have tried to fit all the essays together to form a coherent book — a chorus of distinct voices blended into a harmonious whole.
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Most of them are included in this volume. Writing in the mid-seventies, Peter Fritzell complained about this circumstance: Despite [Sand County's'] popularity and reasonable longevity ... no scientist has considered it much more than ...
Most of them are included in this volume. Writing in the mid-seventies, Peter Fritzell complained about this circumstance: Despite [Sand County's'] popularity and reasonable longevity ... no scientist has considered it much more than ...
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... and the "beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii).
... and the "beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii).
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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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