Aldo Leopolds Shack: Ninas Story (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)

This charming childrens book tells the tale of an extraordinary familys efforts to restore a worn-out Wisconsin farm during the Depression and the 1940s. Noted conservationist Aldo Leopoldalong with his wife, Estella, and their five children and two dogsspent most weekends and vacations living and working at the Sand County farm they called the Shack, which is now a national historic landmark. Leopolds time there led to his foundational work of environmental writing, A Sand County Almanac, which was based on the scientific observations recorded in his familys Shack journals. Drawing from these journals, historic family photographs, and interviews, and writing from the perspective of Leopolds daughter Nina, Nancy Nye Hunt captures here the spirit of this famous familys experiences on the land.