a sand county almanac oxford university press

handsome new commemorativeedition will be welcomed by afficionados whose paperback copies have gone theway of paper acid.

Recommended.'-Library Journal, 'We have Sand County Almanac to demonstrate just how exceptional Leopoldwas in his highly informed passion for land. develops a fine concept of conservation, not economic, but basically ethical, urging the need for an ecological conscience. This edition also includes two of Leopold's most eloquent essays on conservation, 'The Land Ethic' and 'Marshland Elegy.' With this gift edition of A Sand County Almanac, a new generation of readers can walk beside one of America's most respected naturalists as he conveys the beauty of a marsh before sunrise or the wealth of history to be found in an ancient oak.'By a born naturalist, true sportsman and able writer. And perhaps most important are Leopold's trenchant comments throughout the book on our abuse of the land and on what we must do to preserve this invaluable treasure. Here we follow Leopold throughout the year, from January to December, as he walks about the rural Wisconsin landscape, watching a woodcock dance skyward in golden afternoon light, or spying a rough-legged hawk dropping like a feathered bomb on its prey. But the heart of the book remains Leopold's carefully rendered observations of nature. Sewell, whose work has graced the pages of Audubon and Sierra magazines, walked Leopold's property in Wisconsin and shot these photographs specifically for this edition, allowing readers to see Sand County as Leopold saw it.

Now this classic work is available in a completely redesigned and lavishly illustrated gift edition, featuring over one hundred beautiful full-color pictures by Michael Sewell, one of the country's leading nature photographers.

Hailed for prose that is 'full of beauty and vigor and bite' (The New York Times), it is perhaps the finest example of nature writing since Thoreau's Walden. Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world.

A sand county almanac oxford university press