Round River

by Aldo Leopold

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195015630
• ISBN13: 9780195015638
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Field Experience

If your only other exposure to Aldo Leopold is through his Sand County Almanac, this book will likely be a departure from your perception of him. Aldo Leopold was a practicing conservationist; he sustainably extracted valuable things from the land, and gave back to the land in other ways to repay his debt. With the possible exception of wilderness protection, he didn't subscribe to the "hands-off" approach of environmentalism that is often advocated today. He used to say any experience that reminded us of our "dependency on the soil-plant-animal-man food chain" was a valuable one. Through his journal entries, the reader will follow Aldo on hunting and fishing trips. His entries here are more direct and less philosophical than his Almanac entries. They are the sharp and admiring field observations of a man taking part in all that the land has to offer. It is campfire talk with the most influential conservationist of our time.

The Heart of Aldo Leopold

Leopold's essay, "Goose Music" is a classic must read. Too bad this chapter was left out of the anniversary edition of Leopold's Sand County Almanac.