The Sand country of Aldo Leopold - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871560755 ISBN 13: 9780871560759

Synopsis

From the Introduction: "Aldo Leopold first came to the sand counties of central Wisconsin on a hunting trip in 1925. A decade later he bought a derelict farm there, and he died nearby in 1948, shortly after consigning his sand country essays to publication. The few years of weekends and occasional longer retreats at his sand county shack, transmuted into A Sand County Almanac, were as intimate a collaboration between and man and a landscape as has ever existed in life or in literature. Leopold brought to his used-up, backwater homestead a life-long love of the natural world, intensified by a sensitive appreciation of the mechanisms that made the living system succeed. In that small, impoverished universe, his appreciation took root in precise observation, and his love flowered into poetry; and poetry and observation merged in A Sand County Almanac that is neither art nor science, but both inseparable. It was as though the very modesty of the sand counties - the gift of geologic history and human stewardship - abetted the climactic effort of Leopold's life. The simplified landscape became an open ecological text to the perceptive student, and an analogue to the spare lucidity of his prose. Those who have come through Leopold's work to share his lucid appreciation of life's essential elegance will find the style of this volume faithful to tis inspiration. For those who have heretofore had to infer Leopold's landscape from his prose, the photographs of Charles Steinhacker, who conceived the idea for this book, offer a unique opportunity to see the context from which Leopold's words take their original impetus and meaning. Susan Flader, devoted archivist and student of Leopold's life and work, describes his sand county experience in the larger setting of the area's history and Leopold's own life. And from Aldo Leopold himself, this volume includes a quintessential selection from A Sand County Almanac: and Sketches Here and There...."

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871560755
• ISBN 13: 9780871560759
• Binding: Hardcover