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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Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 192; Susan Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (Columbia: ...
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 192; Susan Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (Columbia: ...
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He lived only sixty-one years, but his birth and death bracketed a period of profound change on the American landscape and in our civilization. His words endure not because they ignore those changes, but because they account for them ...
He lived only sixty-one years, but his birth and death bracketed a period of profound change on the American landscape and in our civilization. His words endure not because they ignore those changes, but because they account for them ...
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For a general history of wildlife management in the United States, see J. B. Trefethen, An American Crusade for Wildlife (New York: Winchester Press and the Boone and Crockett Club, 1975). 19. Aldo Leopold, Report on a Game Survey of ...
For a general history of wildlife management in the United States, see J. B. Trefethen, An American Crusade for Wildlife (New York: Winchester Press and the Boone and Crockett Club, 1975). 19. Aldo Leopold, Report on a Game Survey of ...
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From a sense of being part of a society oriented to the future, Frederick Jackson Turner was to forge a stunning explanation of the American past. The Turner frontier thesis, as it is called — after Turner's most important statement of ...
From a sense of being part of a society oriented to the future, Frederick Jackson Turner was to forge a stunning explanation of the American past. The Turner frontier thesis, as it is called — after Turner's most important statement of ...
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address, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" — dominated American historical thought for the first quarter of the twentieth century, spawning a "frontier school" of scholarship. Since then the thesis has been ...
address, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" — dominated American historical thought for the first quarter of the twentieth century, spawning a "frontier school" of scholarship. Since then the thesis has been ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 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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