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Title: Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold ISBN: 0-345-34505-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 1986 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An American Classic
Comment: This is a profoundly insightful and important book that ranks among the most significant American books of the Twentieth Century. It would be a mistake to describe this book as "nature writing" per se, or of that genre. It is a series of essays in wonderful prose in which nature, outdoor settings or situations provide the backdrop. But it is not written as a naturalist droning about the wonders of some aspect of nature. It is an inspired and deeply insightful description, by a man who clearly has a deep understanding of how nature works, about the ethical dimensions of our relationship with the land and our environment generally. Despite the simple elegance of the writing style, it can be seen (and I know from biographical information) the author draws from a vast experience and knowledge far outside the confines of the wildlife management, which was his professon. The ideas expressed, and the many quotable passages are a treasure trove for anyone interested in broad ideas, not to mention readers whose professions involve recreation, wildlife, natural resources management, the environment, and the teaching of these disciplines as well as ethics, philosophy, and english literature. In sum, this is a must read for virtually anyone who wishes to be familar with important American literature, as well as those with a particular interest in the environment, environmental ethics and philosophy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Possibly the most important book in American Conservation
Comment: What does one say about a classic? Leopold obviously has his fanatic defenders, and there seems to be quite an industry these days in digging up everything that he ever wrote or said, including stuff that I imagine he would much rather have left lying. Fortunately this collection doesn't delve too deeply, and we get the best of Leopold as the conservationist/naturalist writing at the height of his powers. To be frank, the ecology of parts of Leopold's writing is very dated and in some cases simply wrong, but it is the product of a very different mind-set in which "stability" appeared to have validity, and while we may wonder at the evidence of other landscapes that Leopold ignores or skips over, we must also wonder at his skill as a writer in capturing a mood or the feel of particular places. In some ways what I find most important about Leopold -and what I point out to my "eco-fundamentalist" students- is here is someone who celebrated nature more eloquently than any other professional biologist that I have read, and yet here also is someone who never went out without his gun. In this sad age where "sportsmen" and "environmentalists" are too often on opposite sides of the same issue, it is important to reflect on an age when one could be both.
Rating: 4
Summary: A poetic journey for the diehard environmentalist
Comment: Are you one of those people who actually likes to read Thoreau? Well then you're missing out! Aldo Leopold is sooooo much better. Leopold's writing is poetic yet it also calls the common person to action. Likewise Leopold walks the walk when it comes to protecting the environment. While this book isn't exactly page turning, if you like authors like Thoreau, then you should definitely check out The Sand County Almanac, which is the bible to environmentalists. Random Excerpts:: There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot...the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. ___Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.:: If you are a die hard environmentalist (or you just like to read poetic stuff) this book is for you.
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Title: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ISBN: 0618249060 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey ISBN: 0345326490 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz ISBN: 0195007778 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold (Galaxy Book, 372) by Aldo Leopold, Luna Bergere Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz ISBN: 0195015630 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1972 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Companion to a Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays by J. Baird Callicott ISBN: 0299112349 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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