Some have even argued that the fear of spiders, like the fear of snakes, is an innate fear – people are simply born with it thanks When it comes to lists of common phobias, arachnophobia – the fear of spiders – almost always makes the top ten, and more often than not, the top five. In fact, no less an authority on natural philosophy (what would later become known as natural history) than Linnaeus himself included
The phrase “here there be dragons,” so famously seen on old maps indicating places where there were great and mysterious dangers to be found, was not so very long ago not simply a metaphor. And for those who already have, and perhaps have worn out their present copy from repeated readings, the release of this new edition offers a convenient (to justify…) opportunity to replace the older one. A new edition, this time featuring an introduction by Barbara Kingsolver, has just been published by Oxford University Press (naturally) and is now available.įor those who may not yet have read this remarkable work of twentieth-century American nature writing, the publication of this new edition of A Sand County Almanac is the perfect opportunity to remedy that oversight. Originally published in 1949 by Oxford University Press, it has now seen over two million copies printed in various editions.
When it comes to classics of American nature writing, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac likely ranks second only to Henry David Thoreau’s Waldenin terms of the influence readers today would say it has had upon their ways of thinking about the natural world and relationship to it (and indeed, for some, Leopold’s book would outrank Thoreau’s on such a list).
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