A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
First published in 1949, <i>A Sand County Almanac</i> combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.<br /><br />Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that 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; and a final section in which Leopold addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillard's <i>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</i>, Edward Abbey's <i>Desert Solitaire</i>, and Robert Finch's <i>The Primal Place</i>, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was sixty-five years ago.