To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold’s writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in camp during his many field trips–hunting, fishing, and exploring–and they indicate the source of ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. They reflect as well two long canoe trips in Canada and a sojourn in Mexico, where Leopold hunted deer with bow and arrow. The essays presented here are culled from the more contemplative notes which were still in manuscript form at the time of Leopold’s death in 1948, fighting a brush fire on a neighbor’s farm.

Round River has been edited by Leopold’s son, Luna, a geologist well-known in the field of conservation. It is also charmingly illustrated with line drawings by Charles W. Schwartz. All admirers of Leopold’s work–indeed, all lovers of nature–will find this book richly rewarding.