Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited

In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a...
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Author: Estella B. Leopold
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Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited by Leopold, Estella B.

Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited

¥6,524

Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited

¥6,524
Author: Estella B. Leopold
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a farm - and surrounding lands in south-central Wisconsin. The entire Leopold clan - five children in all - worked together to put into practice Aldo's "land ethic," which involved ecological restoration and sustainability. In the process, they built more than a pleasant weekend getaway; they established a new way of relating to nature. In 1948, A Sand County Almanac was published, and it has become a beloved and foundational text of the conservation movement.

Decades later, Estella B. Leopold, the youngest of the Leopold children - she was eight when they bought the land - now reflects on the "Shack," as they called the repurposed barn, and its inhabitants, and recalls with clear-eyed fondness the part it played in her and her siblings' burgeoning awareness of nature's miracles, season by season. In Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited, she unforgettably recalls the intensity of those days: the taste of fresh honey on sourdough pancakes; the trumpeting arrival of migrating Canada geese; the awesome power of river ice driven by currents - and each description is accompanied by stunning photographs by her brother, A. Carl Leopold. As the Leopolds worked to restore degraded farmland back to its original prairie and woods, they noted and celebrated all of the flora and fauna that came to share the Shack lands.

As first evoked in A Sand County Almanac, and now revisited in Stories from the Leopold Shack, the Leopold family's efforts of ecological restoration were among the earliest in the United States, and their work, collectively and individually, continues to have a profound impact on land management and conservationism. All of Aldo and Estella Leopold's children went on to become distinguished scientists and to devote themselves to a life of conservation; their work continues through the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Estella B. Leopold book offers a voyage back to the place where it all began.


Author: Estella B. Leopold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/10/2016
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190463229

About the Author

Estella Bergere Leopold was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1927, and after undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from Yale University became a paleobotanist and conservationist. From 1955 to 1976 she worked for the United States Geological Survey and subsequently moved to the University of Washington, where, until her retirement, she was a professor of botany and forest sciences and directed the Quaternary Research Center. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many awards and citations, she lives in Seattle, Washington.

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