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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work - Softcover

Meine, Curt D.; Mayer, Pete

 
9780299249045: Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299249042 ISBN 13: 9780299249045
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Devil s Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formations where the Ice Age glacier's terminal moraine meets an ancient landscape of rock. This third edition of the popular Climber s Guide to Devil s Lake has been thoroughly updated for twenty-first-century climbers and hikers and includes information for use with GPS receivers. It provides information for climbers of all abilities and preferences, offering precise directions to help them navigate and climb within the park.Features include: an updated introduction by George J. Pokorny and new photographs by Eric Andre
a summary of the geologic and natural history of the Baraboo hills by Patricia K. Armstrong
locations and updated descriptions of nearly 1,800 climbs
landmark photographs from most major climbing areas
GPS waypoints, map coordinates, altimeter readings, and approach information
detailed diagrams locating climbing routes at most major climbing areas
6 new diagrams, 5 new climbing areas, and 120 new routes
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Curt D. Meine is senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation. He is the author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and his most recent book is Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation. Richard L. Knight is professor of wildlife conservation, Colorado State University, and coeditor of several volumes including Wildlife and Recreation and Stewardship across Boundaries

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“Of all the conservationists who have preceded us, Leopold was the most radical, the most complete, and therefore the most needed. . . . Because his writing has, to such an extent, the quality of his character, and because his character was so much that of a conservationist, it is particularly needful that we should know the story of his life. Curt Meine has supplied this need, and he helps us to see clearly how Leopold’s writing originated in his life. . . . Leopold was indistinguishably a man of words and a man of deeds, and we see this more clearly in Meine’s biography than in Leopold’s writings.”—Wendell Berry, from the appreciation

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299249042
ISBN 13 
9780299249045
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
678
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