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Pages: 226, Edition: 2, Paperback, Oxford University Press, USA

Pages: 320, Mass Market Paperback, Ballantine Books

A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC, With Essays on Conservation from Round River. Leopold. There have been countless editions of this classic work; it is one of the seminal writings that energized a new resurgence of interest in living in harmony with the land. Leopold’s portraits of the natural world offer a stunning tribute to the land and a bold challenge to protect the world we love. This is the original, unedited version of the Leopold's classic work. #B-6183.

First published in 1949, Leopold's tour de force combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau, with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finch's The Primal Place, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was forty years ago.

Now this classic work is available in a completely redesigned and lavishly illustrated gift edition, featuring over one hundred beautiful full-color pictures by Michael Sewell, one of the country's leading nature photographers. Sewell, whose work has graced the pages of Audubon and Sierra magazines, walked Leopold's property in Wisconsin and shot these photographs specifically for this edition, allowing readers to see Sand County as Leopold saw it. The resulting layout is spectacular. But the heart...

Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas.

Leopold's principal and extraordinary contribution to our world was to articulate the idea of a land ethic. The human relation to land, he wrote, "is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations." Leopold believed that the basis of successful conservation was to extend to nature the ethical sense of responsibility that humans extend to each other....The power of Leopold's argument-buttressed as it is by his clear, vigorous prose-has not been blunted in the least. In fact, his...

Biography: The oldest of four in an Iowa family, Aldo Leopold was introduced to the natural world by his father, who took HIS children for hikes through the woods and swamps in the area. Leopold was educated at Yale's School of Forestry (which had just been established) and, for 17 years, worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the Southwest and in Wisconsin, where he taught at the university in the Agricultural Economics Department from 1933 to 1948. In 1935 he was a co-founder of the Wilderness Society...

Pages: 320, Edition: 1, Paperback, University of Wisconsin Press

Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world. Hailed for prose that is "full of beauty and vigor and bite" (The New York Times), it is perhaps the finest example of nature writing since Thoreau's Walden.Now this classic work is available in a completely redesigned and lavishly illustrated gift edition, featuring over one hundred beautiful full-color pictures...

Leopold made an important contribution to the philosophy of the environmental movement with his views on the interconnectedness of nature. According to this view, humans are a part of the "community" of nature, and therefore they need to have a "land ethic" for conserving nature. 7 pages, 21 footnotes, 5 bibliographic references. $49

Pages: 504, Edition: 1, Paperback, Shearwater

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey illuminates his lifelong quest for answers to a fundamental issue: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too? Leopold's journey took him from Iowa to Yale to the Southwest to Wisconsin, with fascinating stops along the way to probe the causes of early land settlement failures, contribute to the emerging science of ecology, and craft a new vision for land use.

Trade paperback. Author's first book, a classic of modern ecology and conservation, beautifully written and timeless in its appeal. It begins 'There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.' Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. 226 pp. Very good. .ISBN # 0-19-5007778