We checked his version of the book he had downloaded from. Want another wtf? When I told my son about all this, he was mystified. Are you sitting down? Of the 224 or so pages in the printed book, about 95 are not included in the audiobook. But wait! Doesn’t it say in the description “Unabridged Audiobook”. Guess what: the current version on Audible is abridged. Huh? There was no such section in the book I listened to. I was in a section called “Arizona and the New World “. Just arrived today and I opened it at random to see if I recognized an old friend. As I said, this is my new favorite book, so naturally I wanted to get it in print. I’m honestly surprised Campbell agreed to do the project.
It’s not just all the parts - and there are many - where Leopold is clearly expressing a man’s perspective the whole sensibility of the book is a male perspective. While Campbell does a fine job reading the story, it just sounds weird coming out in a woman’s voice. It’s Thoreau without the (sorry, Thoreau fans - I’m actually one of you) pretentiousness. Some have compared his writing to Thoreau’s. First off, after I finished Sand County Almanac, I told my son, who’d recommended it to me, “I have a new favorite book.” I love the way Leopold writes, at all times mindful of the smallest details as well as how those fit into a much larger and longer story.
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