| Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire | 
 enlarge | Author: Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher: Falcon Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1851364
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0762736631
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72092
EAN: 9780762736638
ASIN: 0762736631
Publication Date: April 2005
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 A lightweight treatment of a heavyweight thinker April 13, 1999
As someone who is intimately familiar with the work of Aldo Leopold I was quite diappointed with this book. Although there are no glaring inaccuracies with the biography there is one obvious problem with it. A far far superior treatment of Leopold's life and work has already been written. Curt Meine's book "Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work" is such a better treatment of both Leopold's 'life and work' that Lorbiecki's book never needed to be written. "A Fierce Green Fire" is a superficial treatment of one of the most, if not the most, profound thinkers of our time and cannot hold a candle to Meine's book. If Leopold enthusiasts really want to learn about Aldo Leopold I would suggest Meine's book--don't cheat yourself.
 One of the best biographies I've ever read of this great man June 20, 1997
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Being an environmentalist and teacher I have long been acquainted with the work of Aldo Leopold. This book, while unstinting in praise for the man, lets his life work speak for itself. I was impressed by three things: One, the depth of his feeling for sustainable landscape, whether used or preserved. I had somehow believed that his revelation with the dying wolf was the beginning of his environmental conscience, but it was there almost from the beginning. Two, the evolution of his feeling for the preservation of wildlife. Although he was a hunter all his life, his feeling toward "predators" took a 180 degree turn during his life, as did the nation's, eventually. Finally, we see the handicaps he labored under, from an early severe illness to problems in later life, that makes his accomplishments even more impressive. I am often put off by biographers because they feel that every day in the life of their subjects mush somehow be accounted for. By what looks like severe editorial restraint, she allows her book to flow like an exciting novel. I have already bought extra copies for friends working with the enviornment and will probably do more.
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