Best Selling Books by Aldo Leopold

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. 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. 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. Sewell, whose work has graced the pages of Audubon and Sierra magazines, walked Leopold''s property in Wisconsin and shot these photographs specifically for this edition, allowing readers to see Sand County as Leopold saw it. The resulting layout is spectacular. But the heart of the book remains Leopold''s carefully rendered observations of nature. Here we follow Leopold throughout the year, from January to December, as he walks about the rural Wisconsin landscape, watching a woodcock dance skyward in golden afternoon light, or spying a rough-legged hawk dropping like a feathered bomb on its prey. And perhaps most important are Leopold''s trenchant comments throughout the book on our abuse of the land and on what we must do to preserve this invaluable treasure. This edition also includes two of Leopold''s most eloquent essays on conservation, "The Land Ethic" and "Marshland Elegy." With this gift edition of A Sand County Almanac, a new generation of readers can walk beside one of America''s most respected naturalists as he conveys the beauty of a marsh before sunrise or the wealth of history to be found in an ancient oak.

His name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist''s bible. This book brings together the best of Leopold''s essays.

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.

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.

Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose farsighted land ethic is proving increasingly relevant in our own time. Now, Leopold’s essential contributions to our literature––some hard-to-find or previously unpublished––are gathered in a single volume for the first time. Here is his classic A Sand County Almanac, hailed––with Thoreau’s Walden and Carson’s Silent Spring––as one of the main literary influences on the modern environmental movement. Published in 1949, it is still astonishing today: a vivid, firsthand, philosophical tour de force. Along with Sand County are more than fifty articles, essays, and lectures exploring the new complexities of ecological science and what we would now call environmental ethics. Leopold’s sharp-eyed, often humorous journals are illustrated here for the first time with his original photographs, drawings, and maps. Also unique to this collection is a selection of over 100 letters, most of them never before published, tracing his personal and professional evolution and his efforts to foster in others the love and sense of responsibility he felt for the land.

Aldo Leopold''s classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time. In it, Leopold sets forth an eloquent plea for the development of a "land ethic" -- a belief that humans have a duty to interact with the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise "the land" in ways that ensure their well-being and survival. For the Health of the Land, a new collection of rare and previously unpublished essays by Leopold, builds on that vision of ethical land use and develops the concept of "land health" and the practical measures landowners can take to sustain it. The writings are vintage Leopold -- clear, sensible, and provocative, sometimes humorous, often lyrical, and always inspiring. Joining them together are a wisdom and a passion that transcend the time and place of the author''s life. The book offers a series of forty short pieces, arranged in seasonal "almanac" form, along with longer essays, arranged chronologically, which show the development of Leopold''s approach to managing private lands for conservation ends. The final essay is a never before published work, left in pencil draft at his death, which proposes the concept of land health as an organizing principle for conservation. Also featured is an introduction by noted Leopold scholars J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle that provides a brief biography of Leopold and places the essays in the context of his life and work, and an afterword by conservation biologist Stanley A. Temple that comments on Leopold''s ideas from the perspective of modern wildlife management. The book''s conservation message and practical ideas are as relevant today as they were when first written over fifty years ago. For the Health of the Land represents a stunning new addition to the literary legacy of Aldo Leopold.

Gathers the pre-Sand Country Almanac writings of Aldo Leopold, showing that he was not born an ecologist, but evolved over time through experimentation and thought.

En 1999 se cumplieron cincuenta años de la primera publicación de uno de los clásicos absolutos que ha generado el pensamiento ecologista: A Sand County Almanac (Almanaque del Condado Arenoso), la obra cimera del ingeniero forestal y ecólogo estadounidense Aldo Leopold, concluida justo antes de su muerte, en 1948. Este libro, donde han hallado alimento intelectual y espiritual varias generaciones de ecologistas en el mundo anglosajón (allí es considerado una verdadera Biblia), y que dio origen a la ética ecológica como disciplina filosófica de perfiles nítidos, aúna con inimitable frescura las observaciones naturalistas de primera mano y a la reflexión de fondo sobre la relación entre el ser humano y la biosfera. El esfuerzo de Leopold a lo largo de toda su vida por llegar a comprender la tierra como un sistema ecológico dinámico, y al mismo tiempo como una comunidad moral de la que todos los seres formamos parte, culmina en el famoso ensayo La ética de la tierra, cuyo título se ha escogido para dar nombre a esta edición castellana casi íntegra de A Sand County Almanac. Aldo Leopold nació en Burlington (Iowa) en 1887, cultivó desde niño un intenso interés por la naturaleza y desarrolló una larga vida profesional, primero como ingeniero forestal al servicio de la conservación de los bosques estadounidenses y después como respetado profesor universitario especialista en la gestión de la vida silvestre. Murió de un ataque al corazón, el 11 de abril de 1948, mientras intentaba apagar un incendio en la granja de una vecina que amenazaba sus propias repoblaciones forestales en la granja familiar The Shack. Su libro Almanaque del Condado Arenoso, junto con La primavera silenciosa de Rachel Carson, son sin duda las dos obras del siglo XX que más profundamente han influido en el desarrollo del movimiento ecologista en EE UU.

Un classique majeur du nature writing enfin en Totem dans une nouvelle traduction. Né dans le rêve pionnier, Aldo Leopold a consacré sa vie à observer la nature. Autour de sa ferme dans son « comté des sables » comme à travers le reste des États-Unis, il mesure l''empreinte de l''homme, insidieuse, sur les écosystèmes, et en déduit la nécessité d''un changement de regard. La terre ne doit plus être considérée comme une marchandise, mais comme une communauté qu''il faut appréhender avec patience, humilité et respect. L''Almanach d''un comté des sables est un classique intemporel des écrits sur la nature, et un texte d''une brûlante actualité dans la veine du Walden, d''Henry David Thoreau.

Aldo Leopold es una de las figuras míticas del ecologismo contemporáneo. Desde aquella ocasión en la que, siendo muy joven, una loba murió en sus brazos ?y entendió que la desaparición de lo salvaje traerá el fin de nuestro mundo? hasta el momento de su muerte mientras intentaba apagar un incendio forestal, Leopold dedicó toda su vida a la preservación de la naturaleza. Fue guardabosques y profesor, activista y escritor, y entre sus múltiples libros destaca este que os presentamos: un clásico indispensable a la misma altura que «Walden» de Thoreau. Con un lenguaje tan poético como directo, tan repleto de humor como de sabiduría, «Un año en Sand County» se abre con una frase emblemática: «Hay quien puede vivir sin lo salvaje y quien no puede». Tal como sugirió el propio Leopold, éste es, por tanto, un libro para todos aquellos para los que ver gansos salvajes atravesando el cielo es más importante que ver la televisión.En la primera parte del volumen, el autor nos relata, mes a mes, las temporadas que pasa en su refugio contra la excesiva modernidad: una vieja granja de Wisconsin entre cuyas paredes y en los bosques que la rodean, alejado de la interminable plétora de bendiciones materiales del mundo contemporáneo, encuentra su alimento sagrado. En la segunda parte del libro nos narra algunos de los episodios que han marcado su vida desde el punto de vista de la ecología y el activismo medioambiental, y que, a lo largo de cuarenta años y un continente, le han permitido constatar la profunda herida que estamos causando a la Tierra. Finalmente, en la última parte, Leopold nos propone una reflexión lúcida y profunda sobre los caminos posibles para recrear nuestra relación con lo vivo, a través de la primera teoría para una ética de la tierra. Con millones de lectores a lo largo de varias generaciones, éste es uno de los escritos más importantes e influyentes de la historia de la ecología y el conservacionismo.

A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.

A special edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of the environmental movement—plus original photographs and other writings on environmental ethics Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose farsighted land ethic is proving increasingly relevant in our own time. Now, Leopold’s essential contributions to our literature—some hard-to-find or previously unpublished—are gathered in a single volume for the first time. Here is his classic A Sand County Almanac, hailed—along with Thoreau’s Walden and Carson’s Silent Spring—as one of the main literary influences on the modern environmental movement. Published in 1949, it remains a vivid, firsthand, philosophical tour de force. Along with Sand County are more than fifty articles, essays, and lectures exploring the new complexities of ecological science and what we would now call environmental ethics. Leopold’s sharp-eyed, often humorous journals are illustrated here for the first time with his original photographs, drawings, and maps. Also unique to this collection is a selection of over 100 letters, most of them never before published, tracing his personal and professional evolution and his efforts to foster in others the love and sense of responsibility he felt for the land. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

L’homme moderne peut-il encore préserver la nature ? Conserver son caractère sauvage (wilderness) sans en être exclu ? Quelle place peut-il y occuper ? Pour Aldo Leopold, pionnier de la pensée écologique, à l’instar de H.D. Thoreau ou John Muir, et père de la protection de la nature, la réponse se trouve dans la quête d’un équilibre harmonieux entre la nature et l’homme moderne. Il se distingue ainsi des courants, inspirés par Thoreau, qui évacuent l’homme et prônent une communion avec la nature. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) est l’un des pionniers, avec H.D. Thoreau et John Muir, de la pensée écologique et le père de la protection de la nature et des espèces sauvages. L''éthique de la terre (Land Ethic) est une référence incontestée de l''écologie.

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Introductions by George Archibald and Nina Leopold Bradley.

Ecrits entre les années 1920 et 1930, ces quatorze textes, pour la plupart inédits en français, abordent des sujets qui sont encore d''actualité au début du XXIe siècle : la déforestation des campagnes, l''érosion des terres pauvres, la destruction des marais, la surexploitation des forêts, etc. Ils permettent de découvrir les écrits d''un grand penseur de l''écologie.