When it comes to classics of American nature writing, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac likely ranks second only to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in terms of the influence readers today would say it has had upon their ways of thinking about the natural world and relationship to it (and indeed, for some, Leopold’s book would outrank Thoreau’s on such a list).
Originally published in 1949 by Oxford University Press, it has now seen over two million copies printed in various editions. A new edition, this time featuring an introduction by Barbara Kingsolver, has just been published by Oxford University Press (naturally) and is now available.
For those who may not yet have read this remarkable work of twentieth-century American nature writing, the publication of this new edition of A Sand County Almanac is the perfect opportunity to remedy that oversight. And for those who already have, and perhaps have worn out their present copy from repeated readings, the release of this new edition offers a convenient (to justify…) opportunity to replace the older one.
