{"product_id":"9780195059281","title":"A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis special edition of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eA Sand County Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"full of beauty and vigor and bite,\" \u003ci\u003eA Sand County Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another section that gathers together the informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled around the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in which Leopold addresses more formally the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillard's \u003ci\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Abbey's \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/i\u003e, and Robert Finch's \u003ci\u003eThe Primal Place\u003c\/i\u003e, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was forty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022422360304,"sku":"9780195059281","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195059281_p0.jpg?v=1763662885","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195059281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}