The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac, bringing Leopold’s ethic—that some could live without nature but most should not—into the twenty-first century. In The East Country, Pretty follows the seasons through seventy-four t...
قائمة المحتويات
Preface
A Geographic Locator
January
1. The Winter Hesitation
2. One Glossy Ibis and Many Ticks
3. Winter Gales and Beliefs
4. Walk the Line
5. The Weight of a Sni...
عن المؤلف
Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction and This Luminous Coast, ...