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A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there

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  • Author: Leopold, Aldo
    Contributor: Schwartz, Charles Walsh
    Date:
    Created
    19871949
    Summary:

    Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.

    Contents:
    • Introduction: The delights and dilemmas of a Sand County almanac
    • Part I: 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
    • Part 2: Sketches here and there. Wisconsin: Marshland elegy ; The sand counties ; Odyssey ; On a monument to the pigeon ; Flambeau ; Illinois and Iowa: Illinois bus ride ; Red legs kicking ; Arizona and New Mexico: On top ; Thinking like a mountain ; Escudilla ; Chihuahua and Sonora: Guacamaja ; The Green lagoons ; Song of the Gavilan ; Oregon and Utah: Cheat takes over ; Manitoba: Clandeboye
    • Part 3: The upshot. Conservation esthetic ; Wildlife in American culture ; Wilderness ; The Land ethic ; About the author.
    Genre:
    Nature and the environment
    Subject(s): Natural history | United States | Nature conservation | Wildlife conservation
    Original Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0195053052, 9780195053050, 9780195059281, 0613924142, 9780613924146, 9780195007770, 0195007778