A Sand County Almanac (Galaxy Books, #263)

by Aldo Leopold

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.

• ISBN10: 019505928X
• ISBN13: 9780195059281
• Publish Date: 15 June 1989 (first published 6 March 1968)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 29 June 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[Briana @ Pages Unbound]

Although Leopold sometimes has as much of a "message" about nature as writers such as Thoreau, he comes across as far more happy and pleasant. Being in nature isn't just something "good for you" for Leopold (though it is). He truly loves nature, happily waking up at 3 am to do something as simple as listening to bird songs.