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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 stun

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Author

Leopold, Aldo Carl; Leopold, Estella B

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190463243

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.06 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13