I should have known… No sooner had a fresh copy of the new edition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac arrived from Oxford University Press that I found Mark reflecting upon that classic work of twentieth-century American nature writing in his most recent Sunday Book Review.
Taking up Roy Dennis‘ new Cottongrass Summer, a collection of fifty-two seasonally arranged essays about the natural world to be published this very month by Saraband, Mark immediately reflects upon how he “can think of no better comparison [than Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac] to give you an idea of its content and of this book’s quality and worth.”
As Mark continues, he explains that Cottongrass Summer is “a book of ideas; ideas about how the future should be, but rooted in the present and with knowledge of the past.” Given this, I can well understand why Mark would make the connection to A Sand County Almanac. See if you don’t agree as well.
Links to Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews appear in The Well-read Naturalist by special arrangement. You can find all of Mark’s past reviews as well as a wide-ranging collection of his other writings on his Standing Up for Nature website. Mark’s opinions regarding the books he reviews are his own.
