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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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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can letters pioneered by Thoreau and advanced by Marsh and Muir — has received, until the appearance of this volume, surprisingly litde systematic interpretation or critical discussion. Roderick Nash devoted a chapter to Aldo Leopold in ...
can letters pioneered by Thoreau and advanced by Marsh and Muir — has received, until the appearance of this volume, surprisingly litde systematic interpretation or critical discussion. Roderick Nash devoted a chapter to Aldo Leopold in ...
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She provides an intimate, authoritative account of Leopold's shack experiences with his family and with his fellow tenants of shore, woods, marsh, and field. Readers who do not know the sand country of central Wisconsin firsthand will ...
She provides an intimate, authoritative account of Leopold's shack experiences with his family and with his fellow tenants of shore, woods, marsh, and field. Readers who do not know the sand country of central Wisconsin firsthand will ...
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On one side of the road, young popples fringed a frozen marsh. On the other side, in what once were a farmer's fields, corn stalks and sandburs stood stiffly above the crust of snow. A line of gaunt elms led toward the remains of a ...
On one side of the road, young popples fringed a frozen marsh. On the other side, in what once were a farmer's fields, corn stalks and sandburs stood stiffly above the crust of snow. A line of gaunt elms led toward the remains of a ...
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On the way back to Madison, they stopped to investigate a report that Leopold had received of a nesting pair of sandhill cranes in the Endeavor Marsh near Portage. Leopold estimated at the time that there were no more than twenty ...
On the way back to Madison, they stopped to investigate a report that Leopold had received of a nesting pair of sandhill cranes in the Endeavor Marsh near Portage. Leopold estimated at the time that there were no more than twenty ...
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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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