A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz, Robert Finch

Overview

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 America's 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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195059281
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	06/15/1989
Edition description:	Commemorat
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	425,267
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Aldo Leopold, long a member of the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Hall of Fame, was posthumously honored in 1978 with the John Burroughs Medal in tribute to a lifetime of work in conservation and, in particular, for A Sand County Almanac.
Robert Finch is the author of The Primal Place and Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Delights and Dilemmas of a Sand County Almanac		xv
Part I: A Sand County Almanac
January
January Thaw		3	(3)
February
Good Oak		6	(12)
March
The Geese Return		18	(5)
April
Come High Water		23	(3)
Draba		26	(1)
Bur Oak		26	(4)
Sky Dance		30	(4)
May
Back from the Argentine		34	(3)
June
The Alder Fork		37	(4)
July
Great Possessions		41	(3)
Prairie Birthday		44	(7)
August
The Green Pasture		51	(2)
September
The Choral Copse		53	(1)
October
Smoky Gold		54	(5)
Too Early		59	(3)
Red Lanterns		62	(4)
November
If I Were the Wind		66	(1)
Axe-in-Hand		67	(6)
A Mighty Fortress		73	(5)
December
Home Range		78	(3)
Pines above the Snow		81	(6)
65290		87	(8)
Part II: Sketches Here and There
Wisconsin
Marshland Elegy		95	(6)
The Sand Counties		101	(3)
Odyssey		104	(4)
On a Monument to the Pigeon		108	(4)
Flambeau		112	(5)
Illinois and Iowa
Illinois Bus Ride		117	(3)
Red Legs Kicking		120	(2)
Arizona and New Mexico
On Top		122	(7)
Thinking Like a Mountain		129	(4)
Escudilla		133	(4)
Chihuahua and Sonora
Guacamaja		137	(4)
The Green Lagoons		141	(8)
Song of the Gavilan		149	(5)
Oregon and Utah
Cheat Takes Over		154	(4)
Manitoba
Clandeboye		158	(7)
Part III: The Upshot
Conservation Esthetic		165	(12)
Wildlife in American Culture		177	(11)
Wilderness		188	(13)
The Land Ethic		201	(26)
About the Author		227