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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791532303321

Autore

Meine Curt

Titolo

Aldo Leopold [[electronic resource] ] : his life and work / / Curt Meine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, 1988

ISBN

1-282-73881-X

9786612738814

0-299-24903-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (655 p.)

Disciplina

508.32/4

Soggetti

Naturalists - Wisconsin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: c1988. With new front matter.

"With a new preface by the author and an appreciation by Wendell Berry"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Midwest -- Part II. East -- Part III. Southwest -- Part IV. Wisconsin.

Sources (1843-1887) -- Prospect Hill (1887-1904) -- Lawrenceville (1904-1905) -- New Haven (1905-1906) -- Forest School (1906-1909) -- Apache: The Breaks of the Blue (1909-1911) -- Carson: A Delightful Turmoil (1911-1913) -- On Top (1913-1915) -- “To Promote the Protection and Enjoyment of Wild Things … ” (1915-1919) -- Chief of Operations (1919-1922) -- Pioneers and Gullies (1923-1924) -- A Fish out of Water (1924-1928) -- “Game Methods: The American Way” (1928-1932) -- Consulting Forester (1932-1933) -- The Professor (1933-1934) -- The Value of Wilderness (1934-1935) -- Toward a Biotic View of Land (1936-1939) -- Digging Deeper (1939-1941) -- Land Use and Democracy (1942-1945) -- A Portent of a Different Future (1945-1947) -- Finale (1947-1948).