Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Title: Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There Author: Aldo Leopold ISBN: 9780197500262 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 2020 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Nature 1559478 Publisher Description: Few books have had a greater impact than A Sand County Almanac, which many credit with launching a revolution in land management. Written as a series of sketches based principally upon the flora and fauna in a rural part of Wisconsin, the book, originally published by Oxford in 1949, gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; a final section addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. Beloved for its description and evocation of the natural world, Leopold's book, which has so