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than a biography of Albright’s years in the Park Service. It relates the maneuvering of politicians and lobbyists in Washington, Albright’s years as Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, and finally Director of the National Park Service. One of the major esthetic conservationists, Albright is well portrayed as wilderness defender. Reviews 89 Brief Mention of Reprints Ecotactics: The Sierra Club Handbook for Environmental Activists. By John G. Mitchell and Constance L. Stallings. Introduction by Ralph Nader. (New York: Pocket Books, 1970. 288 pages, appendix, $.95.) Ecotactics is a ten-part collection of essays on ecology geared to the seventies, including The Scene, Where the Action is, The Land, The Law, The Media, etc. The appendix contains indispensable bibliographies and directories of professional conservation groups and government agencies. The Environmental Handbook. By Garrett De Bell. (New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1970. 367 pages, appendix, film biblio., index, $.95.) The Environmental Handbook was compiled for Earth Day, April 22, 1970. It has a collection of essays and poems, The Meaning of Ecology, two sections on Eco-Tactics, and a useful comprehensive appendix of books, films, and Eco-Notes. Voices for the Wilderness. By William Schwartz. (New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1969. 366 pages, $1.25.) Voices for the Wilderness contains reprints of thirty-three essays in three categories: The Problems of Wilderness Preservation, The Values That Wilderness Preservation Seeks to Preserve, and The Program and Outlook for Wildernes Preservation. Its authors are among the most notable in the field: David Brower, Paul B. Sears, Paul Brooks, Joseph Wood Krutch, Stewart L. Udall, Sigurd Olson, William D. Douglas, Wallace Stegner, and others. 90 Western American Literature The Subversive Science, Essays Toward An Ecology of Man. By Paul Shepard and Daniel McKinley. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. 453 pages, photographs, illus., charts and graphs, additional readings, |5.95.) The Subversive Science is likely the most impressive collection o£ essays on ecology available in paperback, and it is most knowledgeably edited. It is designed as a textbook, and its thirty-six reprinted essays are organized under five headings: Men As Populations, The Environmental Encounter, Men and Other Organisms, Men in Ecosystems, and Ethos, Ecos, and Ethics. The Last Redwoods and the Parkland of Redwood Creek. Text by Francois Leydet. Photographs by James Rose and others. Introduction by Edgar and Peggy Wayburn. (San Francisco: Sierra Club, Ballantine Books, 1969. 160 pages, color photographs, $8.50.) The Last of the Redwoods is one of the latest volumes of the Sierra Club’s Exhibit Format Series to be brought out in its regular inexpensive reprint series. The same superb color photographs and the text eloquently carry on the fight to preserve more redwoods beyond the 1968 victory of the Redwood National Park. South of Yosemite: Selected Writings of John Muir. Edited by Frederic R. Gunsky. (Garden City, New York: The Natural History Press, 1968. xii -f269 pages, map, illus., index, $7.50.) This is a remarkably well edited collection of letters, journal entries, and newspaper and magazine articles written during the 1870’s. Here is Muir exulting in nature’s wild, immortal vigor and beauty—“This region”, he says, “is a song of God.” The collection is rich also in sketches of people he met in his wanderings. A Sand County Almanac. By Aldo Leopold. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966, 1969. xv 269 pages, illus., $7.50.) Twenty-one years ago A Sand County Almanac appeared— and it has been out of print almost ever since. A second printing (1969) of the 1966 revision is again available with the important added feature of seven essays mostly from Round River. There is very little nature writing better than this book. J- G. T. ...