Aldo Leopold's Odyssey

by Julianne Lutz Warren

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey illuminates the great conservationist's lifelong quest for answers to a fundamental question: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too? Leopold's journey took him from Iowa to Yale to the Southwest to Wisconsin, with stops along the way to probe the causes of land settlement failures, contribute to the emerging science of ecology, compose his best known work, "A Sand County Almanac", and craft a new vision for land use. More than a biography, this insightful work is a guide to one person's intellectual growth and to our ongoing struggle to live in concert with the natural world.

"Julianne Lutz Newton makes us feel the loss of what might have followed A Sand County Almanac by showing us in authoritative detail what led up to it. The result is a biography of ideas, a map of how far Leopold had moved between 1909...and his death..." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Aldo Leopold's Odyssey enriches our appreciation of both Leopold and A Sand County Almanac." - SCIENCE "Lucid and perceptive." - NATURAL HISTORY "Superb...a full and fascinating portrait." - AMERICAN SCIENTIST"

Julianne Lutz Newton is visiting assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and president of the John Burroughs Institute in Roxbury, New York. Her articles have appeared in Conservation Biology, The Illinois Steward, Journal of Civil Society, and American Midland Naturalist.