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One of the last textbooks written and used by Aldo Leopold before his death from a heart attack while fighting a field fire near his cabin. Forgotten, the document lay in storage and survived a fire before being rescued from a garbage bin. Contained in the study text are Aldo's class assignments, workshops, and other valuable tools that will teach you to think like a mountain, understand the world like an ecologist, and live like the indigenous.

To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in camp during his many field trips--hunting, fishing, and exploring--and they indicate the source of ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. They reflect as well two long canoe trips in Canada and a sojourn in Mexico, where Leopold hunted deer with bow and arrow. The essays presented here are culled from the more contemplative notes which were still in manuscript form at the time of Leopold's death in 1948, fighting a brush fire on a neighbor's farm. Round River has been edited by Leopold's son, Luna, a geologist well-known in the field of conservation. It is also charmingly illustrated with line drawings by Charles W. Schwartz. All admirers of Leopold's work--indeed, all lovers of nature--will find this book richly rewarding.

'One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published' Paul Kingsnorth, Guardian'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,' begins Aldo Leopold's totemic work of ecological thought. Ranging from lyrical observations of the changing seasons over a year on his Wisconsin farm to his hugely influential idea of a 'land ethic' signifying moral equilibrium between humans and all other life on earth, A Sand County Almanac changed perceptions of the natural world and helped give birth to the modern conservation movement.'An unequivocal statement of conscience that will carry down the generations ... his argument seems more urgently true now than ever' The New York Times

With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold’s most popular book, Game Management may well be his most important. In this book he revolutionized the field of conservation.

A collection of 59 essays aiming to demonstrate the thinking and development of Aldo Leopold, who propelled the US conservation movement from garden to government agencies. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of ecology while it was emerging as a new scientific discipline.

The environmental classic that redefined the way we think about the natural world--an urgent call for preservation that's more timely than ever. "We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir."--San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape--the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. Conjuring up one extraordinary vision after another, Aldo Leopold takes readers with him on the road and through the seasons on a fantastic tour of our priceless natural resources, explaining the destructive effects humankind has had on the land and issuing a bold challenge to protect the world we love.

Luonnosta on moneksi; joskus se ottaa luonnolle, joskus käy luontoon. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) kulkee kirjassaan kalassa ja metsällä, istuttaa mäntyjä ja vaanii lehtokurppakoiraan tanssia, tuumii kynsimön kauneusarvoja ja manaa tieverkoston luonnolle tietämää harmia. Hänellä on silmää niin yksityiskohdille kuin kokonaisuuksillekin, ja yhdessä Sand Countyn almanakan tuokiokuvat ja laajat esseet hahmottelevat luonnon elävien olentojen yhteisöksi - ja ihmisen yhdeksi eliöyhteisön lukuisista jäsenistä.Aldo Leopold oli yhdysvaltalainen filosofi, ekologi, ympäristöajattelija ja metsänhoitaja. Yhdeksi kaikkien aikojen vaikutusvaltaisimmista ympäristöajattelua muovanneista kirjoista tunnustettu Sand Countyn almanakka (1949) on jo käännetty useimmille maailmankielille.

A collection of previously unavailable essays by environmentalist Aldo Leopold, building on the tradition of ethical land use and developing the concept of "land health" and the practical measures landowners can take to sustain it. Containing over 40 short pieces arranged in a seasonal "almanac" form along with longer essays arranged chronologically, each piece is introduced and set in context by the editors.