Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm

by Jane Brox

Book Overview

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865476497
• ISBN13: 9780865476493
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

An emotional and at times spiritual remembrance

Clearing Land: Legacies Of The American Farm combines memoir and history, drawing upon the author's own experience growing up on a family farm with the economic realities that are forcing such farms to extinction in the modern day. Poetic in its reminiscence of a daily life deeply intertwined with nature, cultivating plants and animals, and the joy of simply being alive, Clearing Land is a powerful firsthand testimony sure to evoke memories both pleasant and questionable of those who also lived and worked in agriculture. An emotional and at times spiritual remembrance.