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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science
Author: American Journal of Agriculture and Science
Author: Shantyboat Journal
Author: Harlan HubbardPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Harlan and Anna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Harlan is an artist and a writer with a poet's eye for the beauty of the world. Anna is a musician and an elegant master of the arts of graceful living. For seven years (1944-1951) the Hubbards make their home on their little boat, drifting with the river, camping on the land. Together they learn how to create and sustain a self-sufficient way of life that is infinitely fulfilling. It is a "river way of life"—free-flowing, endowed with the love of nature, the discovery of community, the rewards of good work, and the joy of creativity. The journal is a witness to history, embracing the gentle spirit of an America now lost to modern "progress." It is one of the most significant renderings in our literature of a deeply felt sense of place. Out of this journal grew Harlan Hubbard's enduring classic, Shantyboat, and his idyllic Shantyboat on the Bayous. His later Payne Hollow is a Thoreauvian testament to the values embodied in the homesteading life the Hubbards lived for four decades after they completed their epic river journey. Their life together has been praised by Wendell Berry as "one of the finest accomplishments of our time." The Shantyboat Journal reveals its creation.
The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste
Author: Journal
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691065410
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. Journal 8: 1854 is edited from the 467-page notebook that Thoreau kept February 13-September 3, 1854. It reveals him as an increasingly confident taxonomist creating lists that distill his observations about plant leafing and seasonal birds. Two particularly significant public events took place in his life in the summer of 1854. On July 4, at an antislavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, Thoreau appeared for the first time in the company of prominent abolitionists, delivering as heated a statement against slavery as he had yet made. And on August 9, Ticknor and Fields published Walden, the book Thoreau had been working on since 1846. In Journal 8 Thoreau indicates that these public accomplishments, though satisfying, took a toll on his creative life and did not fully compensate him for the hours spent away from the woods.
The American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science
Author: The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL. D.: March 14, 1776-December 31, 1781
Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
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Category : Congregationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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EPA Journal
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Ezra Stiles
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