A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there, Aldo Leopold

Автор: Aldo Leopold
Название:  A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there
Перевод названия: Альманах песчаных земель
ISBN: 9780195059281
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 019505928X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.29 кг.
Язык: English
Размер: 20.85 x 14.07 x 1.68 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: This special edition of the highly acclaimed A Sand County Almanac commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as full of beauty and vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land.

The volume includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another section that gathers together the informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled around the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in which Leopold addresses more formally the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbeys Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finchs The Primal Place, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was forty years ago.