Aldo leopold a sand county almanac & other writings on conservation and ecology

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238) by Aldo Leopold (Author), Curt Meine (Editor). Since he dies in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly acknowledged as one of many indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose farsighted land ethic is proving more and more relevant in our personal time.

Now, Leopold’s important contributions to our literature–some hard-to-find or previously unpublished–are gathered in a single volume for the primary time. Right here is his basic A Sand County Almanac, hailed–with Thoreau’s Walden and Carson’s Silent Spring–as one of the foremost literary influences on the trendy environmental movement. Published in 1949, it’s still astonishing at the moment: a vivid, firsthand, philosophical tour de force. Together with Sand County are more than fifty articles, essays, and lectures exploring the new complexities of ecological science and what we might now name environmental ethics.

Leopold’s sharp-eyed, typically humorous journals are illustrated right here for the primary time with his unique images, drawings, and maps. Also distinctive in this collection is a collection of over a hundred letters, most of them never before printed, tracing his personal and professional evolution and his efforts to foster in others the love and sense of duty he felt for the land.

This guide is destined to become a landmark within the conservation literature, due to editor Curt Meine’s expert and caring steering and of course the facility of the supply material. Full of works to captivate each the Leopold scholar and the conservation Newby, the juxtaposition of Leopold’s landmark e book A Sand County Almanac, many extra essays, and so many interesting, insightful, and candid journal entries and personal letters is an education in itself. I’m a university professor, a Leopold scholar, and one who has thoroughly enjoyed all of Leopold’s writings and the vast majority of writings about him and his profound contributions to conservation. Regardless of my background and experience with much of the source material, this ebook crammed me with new-discovered surprise and joy, as only a great book can. Leopold’s letters and journals particularly (perhaps as a result of sudden experiences they supply) are at turns funny and snarky, solemn and unhappy, however all the time enlightening. I’ll treasure this e book, and I’m certain that its worth to my instructing – and to conservation education more broadly – shall be lasting.

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Aldo Leopold (Author), Curt Meine (Editor)

832 pages

Library of America; First Edition edition (March 21, 2013)

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