Clearing Land

Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1466807296
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clearing Land written by Jane Brox and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though few of us now live close to the soil, the world we inhabit has been sculpted by our long national saga of settlement. At the heart of our identity lies the notion of the family farm, as shaped by European history and reshaped by the vast opportunities of the continent. It lies at the heart of Jane Brox's personal story, too: she is the daughter of immigrant New England farmers whose way of life she memorialized in her first two books but has not carried on. In this clear-eyed, lyrical account, Brox twines the two narratives, personal and historical, to explore the place of the family farm as it has evolved from the pilgrims' brutal progress at Plymouth to the modern world, where much of our food is produced by industrial agriculture while the small farm is both marginalized and romanticized. In considering the place of the farm, Brox also considers the rise of textile cities in America, which encroached not only upon farms and farmers but upon the sense of commonality that once sustained them; and she traces the transformation of the idea of wilderness--and its intricate connection to cultivation--which changed as our ties to the land loosened, as terror of the wild was replaced by desire for it. Exploring these strands with neither judgment nor sentimentality, Brox arrives at something beyond a biography of the farm: a vivid depiction of the half-life it carries on in our collective imagination.

Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865477285
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clearing Land written by Jane Brox and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm." --Larry Zuckerman, author of The Potato "Nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order . . . Clearing Land, [Brox's] third book, parlays the resonantly detailed specifics of life on her immigrant family's farm in Massachusetts into a larger consideration of the meaning of cleared land and its relationship to other iconic locations in the American landscape: wilderness, prairie, mountain, city. Her precise, eloquent prose, wedded to a sensibility that manages to be at once elegiac and hard-minded, strikes unerringly through sentiment and convention to the heart of the matter . . . The result is a deeply affecting conclusion to her trilogy of books about living the consequences of natural process, human desire and the shifting balance between them." -Carlo Rotella, Chicago Tribune "Sings with the joy of life . . . Brox knows farming, but she knows writing even better . . . Clearing Land is a treasure." -Jules Wagman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Clearing land is the book's guiding metaphor, one that encompasses both time and space, and serves brilliantly to compare the material world and its flux with our attempts to understand it. . . This [Brox] does with eloquent melancholy." -Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe

Author : Earl Devere Strait
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clearing Land written by Earl Devere Strait and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Ray Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Author : Franklin Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clearing New Land written by Franklin Williams and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost and Methods of Clearing Land in the Lake States written by Harry Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And suggestions. pp. 24.

Author : James Richard Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Author : Harry Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book The Cost of Clearing Logged-off Land for Farming in the Pacific Northwest written by Harry Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geri McGhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937089139
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Clearing the Land written by Geri McGhee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: