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Title: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, Stewart L. Udall ISBN: 1-56511-381-0 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE Conservation/outdoors Classic
Comment: Long considered the first book on conservation, this should be read by everyone. The author's love of land, wildlife and nature are fully expressed. Those thoughts are followed by philosophizing on conservation - ethics, practice, economics, etc. Written in the nascent stages of conservation in this country, a time when it was more thought than practice, the issues still resonate today. One sees the difficulties both in expanding environmental conservation as well as the pitfalls and errors made in the area (with all good intent) since the forties when Leopald wrote.
Interestingly, especially to me as someone who hunts, much is written in the context of hunting. He also has some insightful words about why people do hunt as a connection to nature. As only a hunter can, he identifies the hunter's reverance for the land and nature.
Portions of this were assigned when I was in college. Now, 28 years later, the entirety means much more. It should be required reading for everyone, especially lovers of the outdoors.
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.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Environmental Classic
Comment: Aldo Leopold summarizes many environmental movements within this compilation of essays. The Sand County Almanac was one of those university-assigned books that I could not part with and still have today. A must read if you are interesed in the mind of the Wisconsin borne man who set aside the first designated wilderness in New Mexico.
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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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