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Edition: Abridged; 2.75 hours on 3 CDs, Audio CD, HighBridge Company

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty...

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Pages: 320, Mass Market Paperback, Ballantine Books

It is partly our penchant for increasing development and economicgrowth and partly anthropocentrism that make us view the environment inways that fail to consider the ethics or aesthetics of land use or ourmoral duty in relation to it. Leopold's (1986) experiences and observations in conserving thebiotic community of his sand county "shack" property form the basis of hisideas in the book, but so, too, do his experiences as a professor ofwildlife and his U.S. A Sand County Almanac. As Leopold (19...

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year...

Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green...

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First printing. A revised, expanded edition of Leopold's classic work. This includes all of Sand County Almanac (originally published in 1949), plus eight essays from Round River, with a new preface by Carolyn Klugston Leopold and Luna B. Leopold. Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz .269 pp. Near fine in a very good dust jacket (previous owner's name on the half title page, some fading to the light green cloth covers, minor wear to the dust jacket, but overall quite attractive.) A surprisingly uncommon...

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...

These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold challenge to protect the world we love.

some writing on the title page, corner of cover is worn, looks like bookplate and call number may have been removed, cover rubbed

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

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Early printing. 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.' In the green binding with black lettering and illustration of flying geese on front cover. Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. While this copy has only the 1949 date on the title and copyright pages, and no statement of printing...

Pages: 504, Edition: 1, Paperback, Shearwater