A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here and There

by Leopold, Aldo; Schwartz, Charles W.; Finch, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195059281
• ISBN10: 019505928X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 andvigor 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; anda 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 remainsas relevant today as it was forty years ago.

Author Biography

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