"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 la ..."
"These fifty-nine essays by the author of the environmental classic A Sand County Almanac range from "A Tramp in November", penned in 1904 when Leopold was a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, to "The Ecological Conscience", written in 1947, the year before his death."
Thinking Like a Mountain(1st Edition) AldoLeopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests by Susan L. Flader Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1975 by Univ Of Missouri Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-0167-6, ISBN: 0-8262-0167-9
"When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a handful of efforts to capture the work and thought of America's most significant environmental thinker, Aldo Leopold. This new edition of Susan Flader's masterful account of Leopold's philosophical journey, including a new preface reviewing recent Leopold scholarship, makes this classic case study available again and brings much-deserved at ..."
"THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY MISSOURI LIFE MAGAZINE AND DISTIBUTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS. In this stunning book, four accomplished writers and lifelong conservationists team up with keen-eyed photographers to capture the compelling history, beauty, and recreational value of Missouri s unique state park system, one that has been ranked among the top four in the nation. The book features hundreds of photographs and includes in ..."
"Within Missouri's borders exists an incomparable variety of natural and historical adventures. From the surreal grandeur of the nearly two- billion-year old elephant rocks to the haunting presence of controversial artist Thomas Hart Benton in the cluttered studio where he died at his easel, Missouri's diverse heritage is illustrated through its more than 75 state parks and historic sites. In this book, four writers and committed conserv ..."