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| Genre/Form: | Outdoor books |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Aldo Leopold; Charles Walsh Schwartz |
| ISBN: | 0195053052 9780195053050 019505928X 9780195059281 |
| OCLC Number: | 16405709 |
| Description: | xxviii, 228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The delights and dilemmas of a Sand County almanac -- pt. 1. Sand County almanac: -- January: January thaw -- February: Good oak -- March: The geese return -- April: Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- May: Back from the Argentine -- June: The Alder Fork -- July: Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- August: The green pasture -- September: The choral copse -- October: Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- November: If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- December: Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- pt. 2. The quality of landscape: Wisconsin: -- Marshland elegy -- The sand counties -- Odyssey -- On a monument to the pigeon -- Flambeau -- Deadening -- Illinois and Iowa: Illinois bus ride -- Red legs kicking -- Arizona and New Mexico: On top -- Thinking like a mountain -- Escudilla -- Chihuahua and Sonora: Guacamaja -- Green lagoons -- Song of the Gavilan -- Oregon and Utah: Cheat takes over -- Manitoba: Clandeboye -- pt. 3. The upshot: Conservation esthetic -- Wildlife in American culture -- Wilderness -- The Land ethic -- About the author. |
| Other Titles: | Sand County almanac Sand County almanac Sketches here and there |
| Responsibility: | by Aldo Leopold ; illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz ; introduction by Robert Finch. |
Abstract:
Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.
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