The East Country

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 Almana c, 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 vari