Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 pages The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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... shack which appear on the cover and fron- tispiece of this book . I thank Alice Van Deburg , acquisitions manager at the University of Wisconsin Press , who immediately saw the importance of a volume such as this and energetically ...
... shack which appear on the cover and fron- tispiece of this book . I thank Alice Van Deburg , acquisitions manager at the University of Wisconsin Press , who immediately saw the importance of a volume such as this and energetically ...
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... 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 find in Flader's essay a vivid portrait of the larger ...
... 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 find in Flader's essay a vivid portrait of the larger ...
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... shack environs and a systematic account of its geocultural history . Roderick Nash draws the circumference of the author's milieu wider still . Leopold's evolutionary ecological " land ethic " did not occur in an intellectual vacuum ...
... shack environs and a systematic account of its geocultural history . Roderick Nash draws the circumference of the author's milieu wider still . Leopold's evolutionary ecological " land ethic " did not occur in an intellectual vacuum ...
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... shack . Writing in later years , Aldo Leopold explained that he had bought himself a sand farm in an attempt to learn what it was about the sand counties that made destitute families unwilling to pull up stakes and resettle elsewhere ...
... shack . Writing in later years , Aldo Leopold explained that he had bought himself a sand farm in an attempt to learn what it was about the sand counties that made destitute families unwilling to pull up stakes and resettle elsewhere ...
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... shack . " His first recorded act as a land- owner was to plant a food patch for wildlife , and his journal en- tries that summer , scant as they were , did not fail to mention the height of the sorghum . The shack was a family ...
... shack . " His first recorded act as a land- owner was to plant a food patch for wildlife , and his journal en- tries that summer , scant as they were , did not fail to mention the height of the sorghum . The shack was a family ...
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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