Biology

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac

    Foreword by
  • Bill McKibben

Paperback

Price:
$53.00/拢45.00
ISBN:
Published:
May 24, 2016
2016
Pages:
528
Size:
6 x 9 in.
Illus:
46 photos and illustrations

In 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren (n茅e Newton) asked readers to rediscover one of history鈥檚 most renowned conservationists. Aldo Leopold鈥檚 Odyssey was hailed by The New York Times as a 鈥渂iography of ideas,鈥 making 鈥渦s feel the loss of what might have followed A Sand County Almanac by showing us in authoritative detail what led up to it.鈥 Warren鈥檚 astute narrative quickly became an essential part of the Leopold canon, introducing new readers to the father of wildlife ecology and offering a fresh perspective to even the most seasoned scholars.

A decade later, as our very concept of wilderness is changing, Warren frames Leopold鈥檚 work in the context of the Anthropocene. With a new preface and foreword by Bill McKibben, the book underscores the ever-growing importance of Leopold鈥檚 ideas in an increasingly human-dominated landscape.

Drawing on unpublished archives, Warren traces Leopold鈥檚 quest to define and preserve land health. Leopold’s journey took him from Iowa to Yale to the Southwest to Wisconsin, with fascinating stops along the way to probe the causes of early land settlement failures, contribute to the emerging science of ecology, and craft a new vision for land use.

Leopold鈥檚 life was dedicated to one fundamental dilemma: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too? For anyone compelled by this question, the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Aldo Leopold鈥檚 Odyssey offers insight and inspiration.