a sand county almanac oxford university press

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.

But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.' The book has had immense popular influence and has been described as: 'one of the benchmark titles of the ecological movement', 'a major influence on American attitudes toward our natural environment', 'recognized as a classic piece of outdoor literature, rivaling Thoreau's Walden' (Don Meredith).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. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, 'in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Rare, especially with such a nice inscription. A lengthy inscription from Estella Leopold on the front free endpaper which reads, “Perhaps every youth needs an occasional wilderness trip, in order to learn the meaning of this particular freedom.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the spine crown and overall wear.

Octavo, original cloth with titles and tooling to the front panel in silver. Item Number: 5087įirst edition, first issue of this landmark in the conservation movement.

A sand county almanac oxford university press