A selection from the author's diaries covering hunting, fishing, and exploring in lower California, New Mexico, Canada, and Wisconsin. -- Back cover.

Those who have come through Leopold's work to share his lucid appreciation of life's essential elegance will find the style of this volume faithful to its inspiration. For those who have heretofore had to infer Leopold's landscape from his prose,the photographs of Charles Steinhacker, who conceived the idea for this book, offer a unique opportunity to see the context from which Leopold's words take their original impetus and meaning. Susan Flader,...