| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac. By Julianne Lutz Newton. Washington, DC, Covelo, and London: Island Press. xvii + 483 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $32.95.

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey is not a conventional, cradle-to-the-grave biography. It is an intellectual biography that chronicles how Leopold developed the land ethic over the course of his life. Leopold possessed a singular ability to summarize his ideas in short, memorable phrases. But this has obscured important nuances in his attempt to reconcile the relationship between modern humans and the environment. Newton seeks to reclaim the complexity by a careful and deliberate reexamination of Leopold's experiences, thoughts, and actions. Such an analysis of the land ethic and how Leopold conceived it might yield new insights into the problems we face today. It does tell us more about the 1920s and 1930s, an era that demands more attention from environmental historians.

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