Stoner – John Williams

Stoner – John Williams

ByMichael

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters…

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There – Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There – Aldo Leopold

ByMichael

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America’s relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part…