The East Country : Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore

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 A Sand County Almanac, bringing Leopold's ethic—that some could live without nature but most should not—into the twenty-first century.In The East Country, Pretty follows the seasons through seventy-four tales set in a variety of landscapes from valley to salty shore.Pretty convinces us that we should all develop long attachments to the local, observing that the land can change us for the better.