East Country Pretty Jules Paperback
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…
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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 Sand Country Almanac, bringing Leopold's ethic--that so"The East Country, like all accomplished works of close ecological focus, moves cleverly between the intensely local and the universal. Jules Pretty unites his two distinguished careers--as a biologist and as a writer in the broad fields of nature, place and landscape--to encourage 'long attachments to the local' as profoundly valuable undertakings."--Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways and Landmarksme could live without nature but most should not--into the twenty-first century. In The East Country, Pretty follows the seasons through