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A Sand County almanac,  and Sketches here and there
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A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there

Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1968, ©1949.
Series: Oxford University paperback, GB263
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Aldo Leopold
ISBN: 0195007778 9780195007770
OCLC Number: 3799061
Description: xiii, 226 p. : illus. ; 20 cm.
Contents: The delights and dilemmas of a Sand County almanac -- pt. 1. Sand County almanac: -- January: January thaw -- February: Good oak -- March: The geese return -- April: Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- May: Back from the Argentine -- June: The Alder Fork -- July: Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- August: The green pasture -- September: The choral copse -- October: Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- November: If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- December: Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- pt. 2. The quality of landscape: Wisconsin: -- Marshland elegy -- The sand counties -- Odyssey -- On a monument to the pigeon -- Flambeau -- Deadening -- Illinois and Iowa: Illinois bus ride -- Red legs kicking -- Arizona and New Mexico: On top -- Thinking like a mountain -- Escudilla -- Chihuahua and Sonora: Guacamaja -- Green lagoons -- Song of the Gavilan -- Oregon and Utah: Cheat takes over -- Manitoba: Clandeboye -- pt. 3. The upshot: Conservation esthetic -- Wildlife in American culture -- Wilderness -- The Land ethic.
Series Title: Oxford University paperback, GB263
Other Titles: Sand County almanac, Sand County almanac, Sketches here and there
Responsibility: by Aldo Leopold ; ill. by Charles W. Schwartz.

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