A Sand County Almanac

A Sand County Almanac Reviews

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First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as ?a trenchant book, full of vigor 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. As the forerunner to 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 remains as relevant today as it was nearly sixty years ago.Published in 1949, shortly after the author?s death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book?s pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, ?in time to w (More?)

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